Mignon McLaughlin (1913 – 1983)
American journalist and author.
It upsets women to be, or not to be, stared at hungrily.
Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had, for the first involves knowledge and pleasure, the second only ignorance and pain.
I'm afraid to win, and afraid to lose; I hate a draw and can't stop competing; otherwise I'm fine.
It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.
Boredom is often the cause of promiscuity and always its result.
No one can understand love who has not experienced infatuation. And no one can understand infatuation, no matter how many times he has experienced it.
Desire is in men a hunger, in women only an appetite.
The neurotic keeps minute track of his enemies; it is only his friends he is careless about.
It is always safe to tell people that they’re looking wonderful.
Groups of girls are pretty, or not; they are seldom mixed.
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.
Women usually love what they buy, yet hate two-thirds of what is in their closets.
The marriage of convenience has this to recommend it: we are better judges of convenience than we are of love.
Others follow patterns; we alone are unpredictable.
We work for praise, and dawdle once we have it.
Mama does everything for the baby, who responds by saying Dada first.
Of all second-class citizens, neurotics are the only ones who are so by choice.
It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't.