Neurotics always feel as though they were going way up or way down, which is odd in people going sideways. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
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
In youth we are plagued by desire; in later years, by the desire to feel desire. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
We often pray to be better, when in truth we only want to feel better. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Each day, the American housewife turns toward television as toward a lover. She feels guilty about it, and well she might, for… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Theatre audiences can't be made to think and cry: at best, they can be made to think and laugh, or to feel… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
After he has had his tantrum, the neurotic expects those around him to feel friendly and relaxed; after all, he does. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
The past is strapped to our backs. We do not have to see it; we can always feel it. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
It's hard to feel middle-aged, because how can you tell how long you are going to live? — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
When first we fall in love, we feel that we know all there is to know about life. And perhaps we are… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Women who feel naked without their lipstick are well over thirty. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
We sometimes feel that we have been really understood, but it was always long ago, by someone now dead. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Many of us go through life feeling as an actor might feel who does not like his part and does not believe… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
The neurotic feels as though trapped in a gas-filled room where at any moment someone, probably himself, will strike a match. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
When women feel they have learned to forgive their mothers - and men, their fathers - all it usually means is that… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Humiliation is a vast country of imprecise boundaries. If you think you're there, you are. The neurotic rule: when in doubt, go… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
The three horrors of modern life - talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
We are never more self-righteous than when giving up what we should have shunned all along. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
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 Image
So long as God reveals Himself, or doesn't, He is behaving like God. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
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 Image
In life, as in restaurants, we swallow a lot of indigestible stuff just because it comes with the dinner. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Neurotics always feel as though they were going way up or way down, which is odd in people going sideways. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image