Quotes from Margaret Culkin Banning

Cleaning up with children around is like shoveling during a blizzard

You wouldn't be caught wearing cheap perfume, would you? Then why do you want to wear cheap perfume in your conduct?

I get a little angry about this highhanded scrapping of the look of things. What else have we to go by? How else can the average person form an opinion of a girl's sense of values or even of her chastity except by the looks of her conduct?

You wouldn't want to be caught wearing cheap perfume, would you? Then why do you want to wear cheap perfume on your conduct?

Fiction is not a dream. Nor is it guesswork. It is imagining based on facts, and the facts must be accurate or the work of imagining will not stand up.

She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn't take them along.

She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn't take them along.

It isn't easy to be the person who sometimes has to try to preserve your happiness at the expense of your fun.