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Phyllis McGinley Quotes: 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.
         

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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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.



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



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Those wearing Tolerance for a label call other views intolerable.



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



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



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Borrow my umbrellas, my clothes, my money, and I will likely not think of them again. But borrow my books and I will be on your track like a bloodhound until they are returned.



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