"Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed."

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

Phyllis McGinley

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“The fact that I speak five languages is just a plus. I do not try to speak every language I know, in every movie. It must make sense. But, the fact that it's available gives a nice back-up.”
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“None of the wives mention the security guards by the door, who will probably tackle us to the ground if we try to leave without our husbands.”
“Today's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory.”

Source : Kenneth Lee Pike (1982). “Linguistic Concepts: An Introduction to Tagmemics”
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“I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within.”
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”

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