Quote by Phyllis McGinley
Marriage was all a womans idea and for mans acceptance of the pret

Marriage was all a womans idea and for mans acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful. – Phyllis McGinley

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

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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. – Phyllis McGinley

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They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake. – Alexander Pope, The Wife of Bath, 1713

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Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness. – Virginie des Rieux, Epigrams

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Marriage is a financial contract I have enough contracts already. – Linda Fiorentino

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