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If childhood is still a state, it is now chiefly a state of confusion.

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Phyllis McGinley
Age: 72 †
Born: 1905
Born: March 21
Died: 1978
Died: February 22
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Ontario
Oregon
Phyllis McGinley
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Confusion
Childhood
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Of course we women gossip on occasion. But our appetite for it is not as avid as a man s. It is in the boys gyms, the college fraternity houses, the club locker rooms, the paneled offices of business that gossip reaches its luxuriant flower.
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Cocktail parties ... are usually not parties at all but mass ceremonials designed to clear up at one great stroke a wealth of obligations.
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Those wearing Tolerance for a label call other views intolerable.
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Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.
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Ah, snug lie those that slumber Beneath Conviction's roof. Their floors are sturdy lumber, Their windows weatherproof. But I sleep cold forever And cold sleep all my kind, For I was born to shiver In the draft from an open mind.
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Ah! some love Paris, / And some Purdue. / But love is an archer with a low I.Q. / A bold, bad bowman, and innocent of pity. / So I'm in love with / New York City.
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Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child.
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Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.
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Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy
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Scratch any father, you find / Someone chock-full of qualms and romantic terrors, / Believing change is a threat.
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A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe, she can sew a fine seam, she can have a baby, she can use her intuition instead of her brain, but she can't fold a paper in a crowded train.
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Gardening has compensations out of all proportion to its goals. It is creation in the pure sense.
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The trouble with gardening is that is does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession.
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Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure.
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Sometimes I have a notion that what might improve the situation is to have women take over the occupations of government and trade and to give men their freedom.
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In a successful marriage, there is no such thing as one's way. There is only the way of both, only the bumpy, dusty, difficult, but always mutual path.
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God know that a mother need fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the human soul.
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To be a housewife is a difficult, a wrenching, sometimes an ungrateful job if it is looked on only as a job. Regarded as a profession, it is the noblest as it is the most ancient of the catalogue. Let none persuade us differently or the world is lost indeed.
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Time is the thief you cannot banish.
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There is satisfaction in seeing one's household prosper in being both bountiful and provident.
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