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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.

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Famous Phyllis McGinley Quotes

“Children from ten to twenty don't want to be understood. Their whole ambition is to feel strange and alien and misinterpreted so that they can live austerely in some stone tower of adolescence, their privacies unviolated.”

Want Feels Children Whole Strange Ten Ambition Understood Stones Twenties Aliens Privacy Towers Adolescence Misinterpreted

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“Wherever conversation's flowing, / Why must I feel it falls on me / To keep things going?”

Feels Fall Conversation

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“A lover would find life less broken apart after a misguided love affair if they could feel that they had been sinful rather than foolish.”

Ifs Feels Broken Lovers Morality Ethics Affair Foolish Love Affair Misguided

Author:Phyllis McGinley

“Women like other women fine. The more feminine she is, the more comfortable a woman feels with her own sex. It is only the occasional and therefore noticeable adventuress who refuses to make friends with us.”

Feels Sex Women Fine Comfortable Refuse Feminine Occasional

Book:The province of the heart

Source: The province of the heart

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

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