Phyllis McGinley Quotes About Daughters

Quotes about: Daughters

• The knowingness of little girls, is hidden underneath their curls.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Girl, Mom, Daughter

  Phyllis McGinley (1951). “A Short Walk from the Station”

• The thing to remember about fathers is, they're men. A girl has to keep it in mind: They are dragon seekers, bent on improbable rescues. Scratch any father, you find someone chock - full of qualms and romantic terrors, believing change is a threat - like your first shoes with heels on, like your first bicycle I took such months to get.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Girl, Daughter, Father

  Phyllis McGinley (1968). “Wonders and surprises: a collection of poems”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

• Oh, high is the price of parenthood, and daughters may cost you double. You dare not forget, as you thought you could, that youth is a plague and a trouble.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Mom, Daughter, Cost

• These are my daughters, I suppose. But where in the world did the children vanish?

  Phyllis McGinley

  Love, Daughter, Children

  Phyllis McGinley, “Sunday Poetry: Ballade Of Lost Objects”

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