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"The major gossip columnists were more concerned with protecting the industry than with gunning down sinners."
"We call talking about other people's personal lives 'gossip' only if we aren't or weren't part of the conversation."
"Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong."
"A gossip spread a rumor, and became notorious from the deed. The gossip then started a fire beyond their control, and when it spread, the gossip spread the word around, but people just ran away. The gossip died in the fire they started, longing for warmth they could not find or keep when they did. And no one spread the word, about the gossips' death."
"You maintain hope for humanity as an infinite skeptic of gossip and slander. In all mankind's desires for entertainment and exaggeration and sensationalism, when it comes to gossip, the individual always sounds worse than he really is. This is why adhering to gossip subtly affects the mental state of the listener - he goes on holding shady opinions regardless of where the realities of their lights and darknesses may stand."
"Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip."
"The only thing more frustrating than slanderers is those foolish enough to listen to them."
Explore more quotes by Phyllis McGinley
"Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with a man, one man."
"Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful."
"Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!"
"Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone."
"A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe, she can sew a fine seam, she can have a baby, she can use her intuition instead of her brain, but she can't fold a paper in a crowded train."
"Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child."
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