Nothing fails like success nothing is so defeated as yesterdays triumphant Cause. – 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. – Phyllis McGinley
Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time! – Phyllis McGinley
Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure. – Phyllis McGinley
When somebody has an enormous success in this culture, people start asking two questions, which are What are you doing now? and How are you going to beat that? And I have to say, I love the assumption that your intention is to beat yourself constantly – that youre in battle against yourself. – Elizabeth Gilbert