God know that a mother need fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the human soul.
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A bit of trash now and then is good for the severest reader. It provides the necessary roughage in the literary diet.
Phyllis McGinleyCompromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy
Phyllis McGinleyTags: wisdom knowledge marriage ignorance compromise
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.
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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.
Born nakedly to shiver in the draft of an open mind.
Gossip isn't scandal and its not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same
Phyllis McGinleySin has always been an ugly word, but it has been made so in a new sense over the last half-century. It has been made not only ugly but passé. People are no longer sinful, they are only immature or underprivileged or frightened or, more particularly, sick.
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