A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
Phyllis McGinley quote When I was a fireman I was in a lot of burning buildings. It was a great job, the only job I ever had that compares with the thrill of acting. Before going into a fire, there's the same surge of adrenaline you get just before the camera rolls.
Phyllis McGinley quote To be a housewife is a difficult, a wrenching, sometimes an ungrateful job if it is looked on only as a job. Regarded as a profession, it is the noblest as it is the most ancient of the catalogue. Let none persuade us differently or the world is lost indeed.
Phyllis McGinley quote Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure.
Phyllis McGinley quote Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!
Phyllis McGinley quote 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 quote The knowingness of little girls hidden underneath their curls.
Phyllis McGinley quote Of course we women gossip on occasion. But our appetite for it is not as avid as a mans. It is in the boys gyms, the college fraternity houses, the club locker rooms, the paneled offices of business that gossip reaches its luxuriant flower.
Phyllis McGinley quote Biography
Famous author, 1905-78
