Mignon McLaughlin (1913 – 1983)
American journalist and author.
It upsets women to be, or not to be, stared at hungrily.
Luck: when your burst of energy doesn't run afoul of someone else's.
There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.
It is a feeling at once stimulating and flat, to know that someone you do not love is in love with you.
The neurotic usually obeys his own Golden Rule: Hate thy neighbor as thyself.
One of life's few really reliable pleasures: to have a family you love, and to leave them for a week.
Charity is a good way of reminding God that if we can do it, He can.
Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it.
We sometimes feel that we have been really understood, but it was always long ago, by someone now dead.
Naturally, the neurotic wants you to love him twice as much, for he's going to cut it in half anyway.
If you're a gifted flirt, talking about the price of eggs will do as well as any other subject.
Injure a businessman and he'll try to make you sorry; injure an artist and he'll try to make you immortal.
Irrelevant things may happen to you, but once they have happened they all become relevant.
Nobody really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
When a man comes to love a woman exactly as she had dreamed, she decides he is a weakling.
I'm always there to tell people that their life is not that bad. I wish it was easy to follow that advice.
Between two married couples there are five possibilities for friendship: man to man, woman to woman, each man to the woman not his wife, and couple to couple. It's seldom that more than two of these will actually materialize.
Few women care what a man looks like, and a good thing too.
Between a man and a woman both aged fifty there are two full generations, for she might well wed a man in his seventies, and he a girl of twenty.
To smoke or not to smoke: I can make of either a life work.