Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time! – Phyllis McGinley
Marriage was all a womans idea and for mans acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful. – 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
Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure. – Phyllis McGinley