Men feel that women somehow drag them down, and women feel that way about men. It's possible that both are right. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
All women are basically in competition with each other for a handful of eligible men. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Women are never landlocked: they're always mere minutes away from the briny deep of tears. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
It's wonderful to watch pretty women with character grow beautiful. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
With men, as with women, the main struggle is between vanity and comfort; but with men, comfort often wins. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Some women love only what they can hold in their arms; others, only what they can't. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Men prefer brief praise, pitched high; women are satisfied with praise in a lower key, just so it goes on and on. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Women are good listeners, but it's a waste of time telling your troubles to a man unless there's something specific you want… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Women gather together to wear silly hats, eat dainty food, and forget how unresponsive their husbands are. Men gather to talk sports,… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
As we are human, we can't do what we can't do; as we're neurotic, we can't do what we can. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share
Naturally, the neurotic wants you to love him twice as much, for he's going to cut it in half anyway. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share
We have a terror of seeming to exert ourselves, lest it be noticed that we exerted ourselves and did not succeed. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share
The three horrors of modern life - talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share
We are never more self-righteous than when giving up what we should have shunned all along. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share
One of life's few really reliable pleasures: to have a family you love, and to leave them for a week. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share
There are children born to be children, and others who must mark time till they can take their natural places as adults. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share
In life, as in restaurants, we swallow a lot of indigestible stuff just because it comes with the dinner. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share
Neurotics always feel as though they were going way up or way down, which is odd in people going sideways. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share
Even in the same family, one child will always instinctively know when to ask for things, and another won't. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share
People find it hard to be both comic and serious, though life manages it easily enough. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share
No good neurotic finds it difficult to be both opinionated and indecisive. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share
