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
The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
If you have to do it every day, for God's sake learn to do it well. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Life marks us all down, so it's just as well that we start out by overpricing ourselves. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Women who feel naked without their lipstick are well over thirty. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
A bore: one who knows as well as you do what he is going to say next. — 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
