Phyllis McGinley Quotes

I know it sounds old-fashioned, but I like the idea of women taking care of their men.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

A lot of guys have to worry about what their wives and kids think, I don't.

The old saying is true, behind every good man theres an incredible woman.

I love having a man in my life, and being his woman at the end of the day. I know it's a dichotomy.

For everybody knows that it requires very little to satisfy the gentlemen, if a woman will only give her mind to it.

A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

I know that you like to see a man in the kitchen, but I'm skeptical of men who cook. A man should be focusing his attention on the woman, and not what's on the stove.

I was not supposed to be in any way a liberated person. I was a female born in the '40s in a patriarchal family; I was supposed to marry and make everyone around me happy.

We were raised to pursue women... Most of the guys I know enjoy the pursuit. But that doesn't mean women should be wallflowers.

In some ways, what I need is a wife.

I think it can be hard for any man to sometimes be upstaged by his wife. So when I'm home, I work very hard to be Todd's wife and Jade's mother. I have no problem going back to those traditional roles. I try to be Giada, the young girl that he met 20 years ago and fell in love with.

The male corporate model is built on a man's greater willingness to be a slave of sorts - especially once he has to provide for children.

Much is said about the burdens and responsibilities of married men. Responsibilities indeed there are, if they but felt them: but as to burdens what are they?

Were there no women, men might live like gods.

It's axiomatic that all husbands are impossible. But I also think it's axiomatic that women are slightly impossible.

The natural and proper timidity and delicacy which belongs to the female sex evidently unfits it for many of the occupations of civil life.... The paramount destiny and mission of women are to fulfill the noble and benign offices of wife and mother. This is the law of the Creator.

Some people are sure to say that women who spend their time with philosophers are bound to become self-willed and arrogant, deserting their households for the company of [other ] men, practicing speeches, talking like sophists, when they ought to be sat at home spinning

I advise you not to meddle in political affairs nor to either support or oppose any party…. A woman should be neutral in public matters. Her family and domestic duties are her first obligations.

The dignity of women's place in the home demands that your marriage shall be a resignation.

The common man thinks that the marriage is like appointing one to do his work. The husband thinks so! The husband’s family thinks so. Every one thinks that a girl is coming to the family to do work. Even the girl’s family trains the girl to do the household work

I don't know how to cook. I work a lot. So, for me, then, it's important to find a man who can cook. Who will make the house a home more than I can.

You get excited about getting married, aight, but after you're married for awhile, you gotta have a process to make it work, aight.

My wife says to do the dishes, and I'm like, 'Yes, baby. I can clean up.'