[PW] Re: quotation

[Darla Moore]

 Phyllis McGinley's book, Sixpence in her Shoe (NY:  Macmillan, 1960)
has a chapter called "A Jewel in the Pocket." A note on the back of the
book's title page says that "Most of the material in this book
originally appeared in the Ladies Home Journal."
 In this chapter, McGinley argues that a college-educated woman is not
wasting her education if she chooses to become a housewife.   The
chapter ends with:
  "Our minds need to be rich and flexible for those duties.
And even if we had no such duties, we could still honorably wear our
education as the ornament it is, with no other excuse than that it
becomes us. Or if we prefer to keep it in an apron pocket to finger like
an amulet, that is also our right.  The jewel need not wear out or lose
its value or grow dull there, so long as we understand its worth.  It is
something we have earned by our own efforts.  And not even the clamor of
household voices or the complaints of a fulminating college dean can
destroy for us our joy in its possession."
 
 Darla Moore
 Rollins College, Olin Library
 1000 Holt Avenue - 2744
 Winter Park, FL 32789
 

>>> On 8/30/2006 at 4:28 PM, in message
<20060830202816.93633.qmail at web56115.mail.re3.yahoo.com>, siobhan
grogan <sgrogan_craginml at yahoo.com> wrote:
>From what source is the fragment (author may be
Phyllis McGinley) about "...the jewel in my apron
pocket" referring to her education. Thanks for any/all
help. Siobhan

Siobhan M. Grogan
Cragin Memorial Library
8 Linwood Avenue (Route 16)
Colchester, Connecticut 06415
U.S.A.
Telephone: 860-537-5752
Fax: 860-537-4559
Email: sgrogan_craginml at yahoo.com 
website: colchesterct.net/library.html

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