A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe, she can sew a fine seam, she can have a baby, she can use her intuition instead of her brain, but she can't fold a paper in a crowded train.

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• Phyllis McGinley:

  In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.

• Phyllis McGinley:

  Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.

• 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:

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

• Phyllis McGinley:

  Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from

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  I have a West Coast rhythm section and a New York rhythm section. I've got them spread out all over

• Marian McPartland:

  I'm trying to get the record that I made at my birthday party last year, trying to get that out, an

• Marian McPartland:

  Boy, I'm just quietly doing my thing, and I hope they'll look around and get my record out.

• Marian McPartland:

  My hands look terrible but I can do anything I want to do, so, you know, I just think I'm playing a