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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.

— Phyllis McGinley

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Men may be allowed romanticism; women, who can create life in their own bodies, dare not indulge in it.

God knows that a mother needs fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the human soul.

Meek-eyed parents hasten down the ramps
To greet their offspring, terrible from camps.

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.

Prince, I warn you, under the rose,
Time is the thief you cannot banish.
These are my daughters, I suppose.
But where in the world did the children vanish?

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