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Phyllis McGinley

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Phyllis McGinley

Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!

Christmas
Phyllis McGinley

Nothing fails like success nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant Cause.

Success
Phyllis McGinley

In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.

Poetry
Phyllis McGinley

Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure.

Peace
Phyllis McGinley

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Marriage
Phyllis McGinley

Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with a man, one man.

Knowledge
Phyllis McGinley

Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone.

Loneliness
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