• Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such - as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association - the going will be hard indeed.

  Phyllis Mcginley
  American poet and author 1905-1978
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. institution
2. association
3. beautiful
4. bountiful
5. unequal
6. indeed

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Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such - as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association - the going will be hard indeed. by : Phyllis Mcginley

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