Mignon McLaughlin

Desire is in men a hunger, in women only an appetite.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Healthy parakeets have the nervous energy of tennis players.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Courage doesn't know what's around the corner, but goes around it anyway.

— Mignon McLaughlin

The trouble with women is men; the trouble with men, men.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Failure can get to be a rather comfortable old friend.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Acedia is not in every dictionary; just in every heart.

— Mignon McLaughlin

We sometimes feel that we have been really understood, but it was always long ago, by someone now dead.

— Mignon McLaughlin

I'm always there to tell people that their life is not that bad. I wish it was easy to follow that advice.

— Mignon McLaughlin

We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Whether or not you love television, you've got to admit that it certainly loves itself.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Even in the same family, one child will always instinctively know when to ask for things, and another won't.

— Mignon McLaughlin

There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was…

— Mignon McLaughlin

Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It's the sin of my middle age, too.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Your money, or your life. We know what to do when a burglar makes this demand of us, but not when God…

— Mignon McLaughlin

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

— Mignon McLaughlin

No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.

— Mignon McLaughlin

The plague of government is senile delinquency.

— Mignon McLaughlin

It upsets women to be, or not to be, stared at hungrily.

— Mignon McLaughlin

When threatened, the first thing a democracy gives up is democracy.

— Mignon McLaughlin

If the pain wanders, do not waste your time with doctors.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Few of us could bear to have ourselves for neighbors.

— Mignon McLaughlin

No woman wants to see herself too clearly.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Every group feels strong once it has found a scapegoat.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Neurotics dream of a good life, or a great suicide note.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Age is a slowing down of everything except fear.

— Mignon McLaughlin

My thoughts, I guess, are bitter; who but the bitter have thoughts?

— Mignon McLaughlin

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Suburb: a place that isn't city, isn't country, and isn't tolerable.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.

— Mignon McLaughlin

We always prefer war on our own terms to peace on someone else's.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Mumps, measles, and puppy love are terrible after twenty.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Neurotics are always looking for something new to overdo.

— Mignon McLaughlin

The soul may sleep and the body still be happy, but only in youth.

— Mignon McLaughlin

We welcome passion, for the mind is briefly let off duty.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Every creatures stalks some other, and catches it, and is caught.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Whenever we safely land in a plane, we promise God a little something.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Beauty often fades, but seldom so swiftly as the joy it gives us.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before.

— Mignon McLaughlin