Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure. – Phyllis McGinley
Getting along with men isnt whats truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with a man, one man. – Phyllis McGinley
In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime. – 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
What it comes down to is this: the grocer, the butcher, the baker, the merchant, the landlord, the druggist, the liquor dealer, the policeman, the doctor, the city father and the politician — these are the people who make money out of prostitution, these are the real reapers of the wages of sin. – Polly Adler