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Of the small gifts of heaven, / It seems to me a more than equal share / At birth was given / To girls with curly hair.

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Phyllis McGinley
Age: 72 †
Born: 1905
Born: March 21
Died: 1978
Died: February 22
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Behind every myth lies a truth beyond every legend is reality, as radiant (sometimes as chilling) as the story itself.
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Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.
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What in me is pure conviction is simple prejudice in you.
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Mere wealth, I am above it, / It is the reputation wide, / The playwright's pomp, the poet's pride / That eagerly I covet.
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Wherever conversation's flowing, / Why must I feel it falls on me / To keep things going?
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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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Scratch any father, you find / Someone chock-full of qualms and romantic terrors, / Believing change is a threat.
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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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The knowingness of little girls, is hidden underneath their curls.
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If childhood is still a state, it is now chiefly a state of confusion.
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Time is the thief you cannot banish.
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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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Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy
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