Seventy is wormwood, Seventy is gall But its better to be seventy, Than not alive at all.
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriag...
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do he...
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be gra...
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY The system -- the American one, at least -- is a vast and noble experiment. It has been polestar and...
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY I do not know who first invented the myth of sexual equality. But it is a myth willfully fostered an...
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe, she can sew a fine seam, she can have a baby, she can use...
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Sometimes I have a notion that what might improve the situation is to have women take over the occup...
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Oh, high is the price of parenthood, and daughters may cost you double. You dare not forget, as you ...
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation...
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY The Enemy, who wears her mother's usual face and confidential tone, has access; doubtless stares int...
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Of course we women gossip on occasion. But our appetite for it is not as avid as a man s. It is in t...
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of t...
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY The thing to remember about fathers is, they're men. A girl has to keep it in mind: They are dragon-...
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders b...
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Who could deny that privacy is a jewel? It has always been the mark of privilege, the distinguishing...
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Sin has always been an ugly word, but it has been made so in a new sense over the last half-century....
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Sticks and stones are hard on bones aimed with angry art. Words can sting like anything but silence ...
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Frigidity is largely nonsense. It is this generation's catchword, one only vaguely understood and co...
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect me from T...
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by...
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY The trouble with gardening is that it does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession.
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe, she can sew a fine seam, she can have a baby, she can use...
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a...
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages ...
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Women are the fulfilled sex. Through our children we are able to produce our own immortality, so we ...
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Those wearing tolerance for a label call other views intolerable.
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY But the kitchen will not come into its own again until it ceases to be a status symbol and becomes a...
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY When blithe to argument I come, / Though armed with facts, and merry, / May Providence protect me fr...
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY The East is a montage. It is old and it is young, very green in summer, very white in winter, gregar...
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with on...
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shoptalk of the scientist and the consolation of the housewife, ...
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY A bit of trash now and then is good for the severest reader. It provides the necessary roughage in t...
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Sin has always been an ugly word, but it has been made so in a new sense over the last half-century....
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of t...
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Those wearing tolerance for a label call other views intolerable
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Nothing fails like success; nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant Cause.
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Of course we women gossip on occasion. But our appetite for it is not as avid as a mans. It is in th...
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do he...
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Seventy is wormwood, Seventy is gall But its better to be seventy, Than not alive at all
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY A mother's hardest to forgive.
Life is the fruit she longs to hand you
Ripe on a plate. An...
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us t...
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Nothing fails like success; nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant Cause.
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Hollywood's all about, 'Let's make this easy: This is what you do, so you go over here i...
TED MCGINLEY Most of my stuff, I never really watch.
TED MCGINLEY I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
TED MCGINLEY I remember in high school trying to get home from water-polo practice in time so I could see Happy D...
TED MCGINLEY I guess I just wasn't meant to dance.
TED MCGINLEY I don't know why, but I'm an easy target. And I don't do anything to dispel it.
TED MCGINLEY I love my wife, I love my kids.
TED MCGINLEY You have to like the characters you play.
TED MCGINLEY Die in winter woods," roared Tarin, as if it were his most
fervent wish. He was losing it again...
SYD MCGINLEY What the Lady was happening? The man had his mouth smashing on Tarin's, and his tongue was shoving a...
SYD MCGINLEY My photographs are a celebration of life, fun and the beautiful. They are a world that doesn't e...
RYAN MCGINLEY It's been a hard road.
BETH MCGINLEY We did get a couple of things back. Some of it was in the truck and some of it was in a garbage can ...
BETH MCGINLEY My main motivating factor is the cost of funerals. That whole industry is not any place I want to sp...
BETH MCGINLEY My main motivating factor is the cost of funerals.
BETH MCGINLEY We said maybe we could see the cell phone flew out of the truck and got crushed. But the tools? We k...
BETH MCGINLEY I don't want to be an artist that gets stuck doing one thing. I don't want to be an artist w...
RYAN MCGINLEY I know that my mind is so A.D.D., and I want instant gratification - and photography can provide me ...
RYAN MCGINLEY I played the first two rounds of the U.S. Open with him, ... I said to him on the 18th green after t...
PAUL MCGINLEY Anyone can do yardages and more or less pull a club. It is friendship I need more than anything else...
PAUL MCGINLEY Our guys came through and did the job. Carmel is so well-coached, and they're tough to score points ...
SEAN MCGINLEY But no golfer ever likes finishing second and I'll be doing everything I possibly can to go one bett...
PAUL MCGINLEY If I win the hole, to have gone from 3 down to 1 up in a few holes would have been massive psycholog...
PAUL MCGINLEY I'm really excited to get our school back.
JULIE MCGINLEY [The Dane was one up through 22 holes, but lost seven of the next eight holes - a run which included...
PAUL MCGINLEY We are taking this very seriously. It is good to have a different perspective on the bag every now a...
PAUL MCGINLEY There is nothing quite like a freshly brewed pot of tea to get you going in the morning.
PHYLLIS LOGAN Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.
PHYLLIS THEROUX My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.
PHYLLIS DILLER Remember, those that wait upon the Lord will rise up with wings like eagles, and they will run and n...
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee.
PHYLLIS DILLER Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.
PHYLLIS DILLER I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them.
PHYLLIS DILLER You know you're old if your walker has an airbag.
PHYLLIS DILLER You know you're old if they have discontinued your blood type.
PHYLLIS DILLER I'm eighteen years behind in my ironing.
PHYLLIS DILLER Best way to get rid of kitchen odors: Eat out.
PHYLLIS DILLER We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the ...
PHYLLIS DILLER If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
PHYLLIS DILLER I asked the waiter, 'Is this milk fresh?' He said, 'Lady, three hours ago it was grass.&...
PHYLLIS DILLER Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops ...
PHYLLIS DILLER A broken heart is what makes life so wonderful five years later, when you see the guy in an elevator...
PHYLLIS BATTELLE Any time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed.
PHYLLIS DILLER Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.
PHYLLIS THEROUS Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human natu...
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
PHYLLIS DILLER Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.
PHYLLIS DILLER Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.
PHYLLIS DILLER Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.
PHYLLIS DILLER In my early life, and probably even today, it is not sufficiently understood that a child's educatio...
PHYLLIS BOTTOME Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room.
PHYLLIS DILLER What I am defending is the real rights of women. A woman should have the right to be in the home as ...
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
PHYLLIS DILLER There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties or you alter yourself meeting...
PHYLLIS BOTTOME Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops sno...
PHYLLIS DILLER My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor
PHYLLIS DILLER There are two ways of meeting difficulties: You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet...
PHYLLIS BOTTOME If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
PHYLLIS DILLER A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once
PHYLLIS DILLER We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next...
PHYLLIS DILLER If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
PHYLLIS DILLER Aim high, and you won't shoot your foot off.
PHYLLIS DILLER I would not want to be called a feminist. The feminists don't believe in success for women and, ...
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY A lot of people don't understand what feminism is. They think it is about advance and success fo...
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY American women are so fortunate. When I got married, all I wanted in the world was a dryer so I didn...
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY The only time I ever enjoyed ironing was the day I accidentally got gin in the steam iron.
PHYLLIS DILLER For her fifth wedding, the bride wore black and carried a scotch and soda.
PHYLLIS BATTELLE Our dog died from licking our wedding picture.
PHYLLIS DILLER Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be a...
PHYLLIS BOTTOME What I don't like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.
PHYLLIS DILLER Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance?
PHYLLIS DILLER The reason women don't play football is because 11 of them would never wear the same outfit in p...
PHYLLIS DILLER Sex education classes are like in-home sales parties for abortions.
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at crea...
PHYLLIS THEROUX There's so little money in my bank account, my scenic checks show a ghetto.
PHYLLIS DILLER A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once.
PHYLLIS DILLER History offers no evidence for the proposition that the assignment of women to military combat jobs ...
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY It would be a tragic mistake for Congress ever to adopt any public or tax policy which encourages mo...
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY Anyone with a child knows that children learn about the world through binary options: up or down, ho...
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY Suppose the pay gap between men and women were magically eliminated. If that happened, simple arithm...
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY Now that judges embrace forcibly starving someone to death, Congress should use its appropriation po...
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY You know you're old when someone compliments you on your alligator shoes, and you're barefoo...
PHYLLIS DILLER My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, ran...
PHYLLIS DILLER The reason the pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can't see him laughing.
PHYLLIS DILLER Putting women in military combat is the cutting edge of the feminist goal to force us into an androg...
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY Crafts make us feel rooted, give us a sense of belonging and connect us with our history. Our ancest...
PHYLLIS GEORGE Since the women are the ones who bear the babies, and there's nothing we can do about that, our ...
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY When it comes to determining child custody, however, sexism is the rule.
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY Of course climate changes. Many changes are due to factors over which humans have no control, such a...
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY I think the main goal of the feminist movement was the status degradation of the full-time homemaker...
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY I simply didn't believe we needed a constitutional amendment to protect women's rights. I kn...
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY If you find yourself caring for a relative with dementia, the chances are you'll need help.
PHYLLIS LOGAN When I had a baby, I didn't leave the second floor for six months. I nursed my babies. I was a f...
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.
PHYLLIS THEROUS I'm eighteen years behind in my ironing. There's no use doing it now, it doesn't fit anybody I know.
PHYLLIS DILLER If your house is really a mess and a stranger comes to the door greet him with, "Who could have done...
PHYLLIS DILLER I buried a lot of my ironing in the back yard.
PHYLLIS DILLER I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them.
PHYLLIS DILLER To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart.
PHYLLIS THEROUX The advance planning and sense stimuli employed to capture a $10 million cigarette or soap market ar...
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about short and cheap?
PHYLLIS DILLER My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, ra...
PHYLLIS DILLER There is a strong correlation between belief in evolution and liberal views on government control, p...
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY Men should stop treating feminists like ladies, and instead treat them like the men they say they wa...
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY His finest hour lasted a minute and a half.
PHYLLIS DILLER I don't think the GOP is going to die; I think Trump is going to revive it.
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY My college degree is from a great university in 1944. I got my master's at Harvard graduate scho...
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY This is one of the great games in the country. Rutgers has outstanding guard play, especially if the...
PHYLLIS MANGINA I went through college while working a full-time manual-labor job, and I don't regret a minute o...
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY What you learn from my life is, first of all, that anybody can be a leader. You can be a leader. I w...
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY Gay activist groups are already starting to instruct same-sex couples to file joint income tax retur...
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY Big Brother is on the march. A plan to subject all children to mental health screening is underway, ...
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY [However, noting that the women thus accused of witchcraft] belonged to the same ethnic and national...
PHYLLIS CHESLER Congress should pass legislation to remove from the federal courts their jurisdiction to hear these ...
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY I hope that things can change in a way that will make it possible to cure the children that are now ...
PHYLLIS BENNIS I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about short and cheap?
PHYLLIS DILLER After Big Media, U.S. colleges and universities are the biggest enemies of the values of red-state A...
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY We're all doing it. We're all exhausted.
PHYLLIS MOEN If your house is really a mess and a stranger comes to the door greet him with, "Who could have done...
PHYLLIS DILLER The European nations' loss of sovereignty to the EU should be a warning to Americans.
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, ran...
PHYLLIS DILLER Our public school system is our country's biggest and most inefficient monopoly, yet it keeps de...
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY It is long overdue for parents to realize they have the right and duty to protect our children again...
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY Any judge who allows an adulterer with a live-in girlfriend to terminate the life of his wife should...
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY In a world of inhumanity, war and terrorism, American citizenship is a very precious possession.
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY God made them? You think God made them? Did God call White Flower Farm and order the bulbs? Did God ...
PHYLLIS ROSE Perhaps that is what love is: the momentary or prolonged refusal to think of another person in terms...
PHYLLIS ROSE The media has bought into the whole social revolution, the Kinsey ideas, and has been completely tak...
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY The most frequent complaint I hear from college students is that professors inject their leftist pol...
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY There are thousands of Ten Commandments plaques or monuments all over the country, and lawsuits to r...
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY It's not the physical location of birth that defines citizenship, but whether your parents are c...
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY My father used to call me the laughing hyena.
PHYLLIS DILLER Sex education classes are like in-home sales parties for abortions
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY The justices have constitutionally protected obscenity in libraries, filth over cable television, an...
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY A reporter discovers, in the course of many years of interviewing celebrities, that most actors are ...
PHYLLIS BATTELLE When I go out, I love to put on mascara and lipstick, but I simply don't have time for leisurely...
PHYLLIS LOGAN Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.
PHYLLIS DILLER Feminists don't honor successful women. You never hear them talking about Margaret Thatcher. Tak...
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY I believe that the worst thing the liberals did in this country was the Lyndon Johnson welfare syste...
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY They fed them rice with maggots in it. He said the guys who couldn't eat it died.
PHYLLIS LEHMAN Aim high, and you won't shoot your foot off
PHYLLIS DILLER For her fifth wedding, the bride wore black and carried a scotch and soda.
PHYLLIS BATELLE If you haven't had at least a slight poetic crack in the heart, you have been cheated by nature.
PHYLLIS BATELLE A broken heart is what makes life so wonderful five years later, when you see that special guy in an...
PHYLLIS BATELLE As long as I could remember, I had looked forward to a handful of wonderful events - a total eclipse...
PHYLLIS EISENSTEIN How can we protect homeland security unless the government stops the invasion of illegal aliens?
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY ERA means abortion funding, means homosexual privileges, means whatever else.
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY Sexual harassment on the job is not a problem for virtuous women.
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY prompted by a growing concern, deeply held, about the future of the country's national security.
PHYLLIS OAKLEY crumbling under an administration blinded by ideology and a callous indifference to the realities of...
PHYLLIS OAKLEY I think the markets expect just about any outcome, though I don't think an ECB or a Swedish rate hik...
PHYLLIS REED Her father had brought her a bookbag. It had pencils and pens in it and even a yo-yo to play with. S...
PHYLLIS HUNTER A reporter discovers, in the course of many years of interviewing celebrities, that most actors are ...
PHYLLIS BATELLE