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.

Quote by Phyllis McGinley

Topics: Sisters Quotes

Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace...

Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace...

The trouble with gardening is that it does not remain an avocation. It becomes an...

The trouble with gardening is that it does not remain an avocation. It becomes an...

Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at...

Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at...

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

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

A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe, she can sew a fine seam, she...

A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe, she can sew a fine seam, she...

Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get...

Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get...

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it...

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it...

Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be...

Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be...

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

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

Who could deny that privacy is a jewel? It has always been the mark of...

Who could deny that privacy is a jewel? It has always been the mark of...

Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by...

Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by...

I do not know who first invented the myth of sexual equality. But it is...

I do not know who first invented the myth of sexual equality. But it is...

A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.

A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.

Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by...

Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by...

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

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

Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror,...

Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror,...

Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shoptalk of the scientist and the consolation...

Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shoptalk of the scientist and the consolation...

Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the...

Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the...

What's wrong with gossip? We all live on it, but we deny it; we're hypocrites

What's wrong with gossip? We all live on it, but we deny it; we're hypocrites

Without wood a fire goes out; without gossip a quarrel dies down

Without wood a fire goes out; without gossip a quarrel dies down