Gardening has compensations out of all proportions to its goals. It is creation in the pure sense.
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Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.Phyllis McGinley
Frigidity is largely nonsense. It is this generation's catchword, one only vaguely understood and constantly misused. Frigid women are few. There is a host of diffident and slow-ripening ones.
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Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!
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Sin has always been an ugly word, but it has been made so in a new sense over the last half-century. It has been made not only ugly but pass. People are no longer sinful, they are only immature or underprivileged or frightened or, more particularly, sick.
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God knows that a mother needs fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the human soul. But because I happen to be a parent of almost fiercely maternal nature, I praise casualness. It seems to me the rarest of virtues.
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Praise is warming and desirable ... what the human race lives on like bread. But praise is an earned thing. It has to be deserved like an honorary degree or a hug from a child. A compliment is manna, a free gift.
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