Many beautiful women have been made happy by their own beauty, but no intelligent woman has ever been made happy by her own intelligence. — 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
Even in the same family, one child will always instinctively know when to ask for things, and another won't. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
People find it hard to be both comic and serious, though life manages it easily enough. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
No good neurotic finds it difficult to be both opinionated and indecisive. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
