God knows that a mother needs fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other braveaspect of the human soul. But because I happen to be a parent of almost fiercely maternal nature, I praisecasualness . It seems to me the rarest of virtues. It is useful enough when children are small. It is important to the point of necessity when they are adolescents. Phyllis Mcginley»
To be a housewife is ... a difficult, a wrenching, sometimes an ungrateful job if it is looked on only as a job. Regarded as a profession, it is the noblest as it is the most ancient of the catalogue. Let none persuade us differently or the world is lost indeed. Phyllis Mcginley»
