Phyllis Mcginley

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    Gossip isn’t scandal and it’s not merely malicious. It’s chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shop-talk of the scientist, and the consolation of the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual. It begins in the nursery and ends when speech is past.
    Phyllis McGinley (1905–1978)

    A Mother’s hardest to forgive.
    Life is the fruit she longs to hand you,
    Ripe on a plate. And while you live,
    Relentlessly she understands you.
    —Phyllis McGinley (1905–1978)