Phyllis McGinley Quotes About Myth

Quotes about: Myth

• Behind every myth lies a truth; beyond every legend is reality, as radiant (sometimes as chilling) as the story itself.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Lying, Reality, Stories

• For little boys are rancorous
  When robbed of any myth,
  And spiteful and cantankerous
  To all their kin and kith.
  But little girls can draw conclusions
  And profit from their lost illusions.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Girl, Children, Boys

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

• I do not know who first invented the myth of sexual equality. But it is a myth willfully fostered and nourished by certain semi-scientists and other fiction writers. And it has done more, I suspect, to unsettle marital happiness than any other false doctrine of this myth-ridden age.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Age, Doctrine, Fiction

  Phyllis McGinley (1962). “The province of the heart”

• Pressed for rules and verities, All i recolelct are these: Feed a cold and starve a fever. Argue with no true believer. Think-too-long is never-act. Scratch a myth and find a fact.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Women, Thinking, Long

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