Mignon McLaughlin (1913 – 1983)
American journalist and author.
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.
Good food, good sex, good digestion, good sleep: to these basic animal pleasures, man has added nothing but the good cigarette.
What you can't get out of, get into whole-heartedly.
The woman just ahead of you at the supermarket checkout has all the delectable groceries you didn't even know they carried.
Neurotics are sure that no one understands them, and they wouldn't have it any other way.
A childhood can be judged sheltered or not according to which was learned first, the four-letter word or the euphemism.
Neurotics would like to sleep all the time, and to be awakened only when there is good news.
If you hate your lot but wouldn't trade it, it's not your lot you hate.
Insult, not flattery, is the great aphrodisiac.
No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves.
The neurotic doesn't know how to cope with his emotional bills; some he keeps paying over and over, others he never pays at all.
Anything you do from the heart enriches you, but sometimes not till years later.
We are irritated by rascals, intolerant of fools, and prepared to love the rest. But where are they?
If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you.
There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them.