139 Quotes by Phyllis McGinley

In a successful marriage, there is no such thing as one’s way. There is only the way of both, only the bumpy, dusty, difficult, but always mutual path.

Frigidity is largely nonsense. It is this generation’s catchword, one only vaguely understood and constantly misused. Frigid women are few. There is a host of diffident and slow-ripening ones.

The ability to forget a sorrow is childhood’s most enchanting feature.

Words may sting, but silence is what breaks the heart.

There is satisfaction in seeing one’s household prosper; in being both bountiful and provident.

A mother’s hardest to forgive. Life is the fruit she longs to hand you Ripe on a plate. And while you live, Relentlessly she understands you.

Gossip isn’t scandal and it’s not merely malicious. It’s chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.

Say what you will, making a marriage work is a woman’s business.

Ah, snug lie those that slumber Beneath Conviction’s roof. Their floors are sturdy lumber, Their windows weatherproof. But I sleep cold forever And cold sleep all my kind, For I was born to shiver In the draft from an open mind.