Home / Authors / Phyllis McGinley

Phyllis McGinley Quotes

Author

Phyllis McGinley was an American author known for her humorous and warm-hearted prose. Her works often revolve around the theme of daily life, winning widespread acclaim for their unique perspective and profound insight.

Filter quotes by topic

All Men Needs Children Humans Girl Heart Knows People Women Cold

Famous Phyllis McGinley Quotes

“Sometimes I have a notion that what might improve the situation is to have women take over the occupations of government and trade and to give men their freedom.”

“I do not know who first invented the myth of sexual equality. But it is a myth willfully fostered and nourished by certain semi-scientists and other fiction writers. And it has done more, I suspect, to unsettle marital happiness than any other false doctrine of this myth-ridden age.”

Knows Firsts Done Age Certain Fiction Scientist Myth Doctrine Suspects Fiction Writers

Book:The province of the heart

Source: The province of the heart

“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.”

Sex Generations Understood Nonsense Host This Generation Misused Frigid Ripening Frigidity

Book:The province of the heart

Source: The province of the heart

“Women are the fulfilled sex. Through our children we are able to produce our own immortality, so we lack that divine restlessness which sends men charging off in pursuit of fortune or fame or an imagined Utopia. That is why we number so few geniuses among us. The wholesome oyster wears no pearl, the healthy whale no ambergris, and as long as we can keep on adding to the race, we harbor a sort of health within ourselves.”

Source: The province of the heart

“Nothing fails like success; nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant Cause.”

Success Causes Failing Yesterday Defeated Triumphant

Book:The province of the heart

Source: The province of the heart

“Seventy is wormwood, Seventy is gall But its better to be seventy, Than not alive at all.”

Alive Seventies Wormwood

Author:Phyllis McGinley

About the Author

Born: March 21, 1905
Died: February 22, 1978
Known for: Author
Quotes: 106

Books & Sources

The province of the heartRelated source material

Sixpence in Her ShoeRelated source material

A Short Walk from the StationRelated source material

Birds, beasts, and relativesRelated source material

Stones from a glass house: new poems by Phyllis McGinleyRelated source material

Wonders and surprises: a collection of poemsRelated source material

On the contraryRelated source material

Similar Authors

Honore de BalzacBrowse related quotes
Felder RushingBrowse related quotes
Warren FarrellBrowse related quotes
Laura SchlessingerBrowse related quotes
Amy DickinsonBrowse related quotes
Samuel RichardsonBrowse related quotes
EuripidesBrowse related quotes
Joy BrowneBrowse related quotes
Frank PittmanBrowse related quotes
Jeanne PhillipsBrowse related quotes