Emma McLaughlin

“if you're going to do something darling, then do it all the way\ uncoordinated and enthusiastic. a lethal combination”

— Emma McLaughlin

To all the guys who broke our hearts - we wouldn't appreciate what we have today without you.

— Emma McLaughlin

“Rule number one: caffeine is your new best friend. Liquid optimism.”

— Emma McLaughlin

if you'e going to do something, darling, then do it all the way.

— Emma McLaughlin

Cameron Crowe can write dialogue and shoot it with warmth and humor like nobody else.

— Emma McLaughlin

I can't listen to anything when I write, not even the TV. I do have to listen to music when I drive,…

— Emma McLaughlin

Valentine's Day: Rubbing singles' noses in their lack of a mate and the noses of couples in their lack of time.

— Emma McLaughlin

I've learned that hurting you feels infinitely worse than being hurt myself.

— Emma McLaughlin

We "chicks" have munched our popcorn while romantic comedies became just comedies, and then each female protagonist got recast for Mathew McConaughey…

— Emma McLaughlin

It must be so hard for guys in relationships - to have just one girlfriend completely devoted to taking care of all…

— Emma McLaughlin

We really set out in all our books to say something. Every one is an effort to bring the reader over and…

— Emma McLaughlin

“Sure, equal pay, maternity leaves, and pro sports are important. But a girl can't make a free throw from the foul line…

— Emma McLaughlin

Read at a time when everything feels intense, seminal, and like you're the first person to discover it, freshman year of college,…

— Emma McLaughlin

I think something that really shocked me as a nanny were parents who sort of assumed the worst from the get-go. People…

— Emma McLaughlin

The more Mommy blogs going nuclear over playground etiquette I read and birthday parties of glazed adults munching cupcakes like demoralized zombies…

— Emma McLaughlin

Before novels written by women were relegated to their own 'genre,' I was introduced to Jane Smiley by a dear professor who…

— Emma McLaughlin

If I could give a shout-out to anything in the childhood world, I have to say 'Daniel Tiger.' I want to write…

— Emma McLaughlin

My writing partner, Nicki, and I became obsessed with a monologist who performs unscripted shows equipped with nothing more than scribbled bullet…

— Emma McLaughlin

For a blink of an eye, there was so much media glare. It was unexpected, and I don't think we realized the…

— Emma McLaughlin

“The ceremonial oat tour." She reaches in the shopping bag and takes out the milk bar with almonds, ripping it open. "It…

— Emma McLaughlin

Why can't everything be as easy as walking into H&M and putting a week's worth of clothes on a credit card?

— Emma McLaughlin

... keeping her wild-honey-and-chamomile-soaked hair from falling into her oatmeal-and-yogurt face mask

— Emma McLaughlin

A Hallmark card with paragraphs about my beauty written by a stranger is vaguely depressing.

— Emma McLaughlin

“He's entitled not to love me, but he's not entitled to mess with my happy place.”

— Emma McLaughlin

“Being back here—I'm suddenly confronting the enormity of that kind of commitment. And just how much you can fuck someone up if…

— Emma McLaughlin

It's funny, we started writing chick-lit when it was just becoming a crowded marketplace, and now the same thing is happening with…

— Emma McLaughlin

Between finishing emails, loading the fridge, unloading the dishwasher, getting our son to eat his chicken nuggets and my dog to swallow…

— Emma McLaughlin

“I never realized how much of the pleasure of dining out is watching people, otherwise it feels like ordering in with better…

— Emma McLaughlin

Studios will tell you that they can't turn a profit on female-driven entertainment. Which is like the Gap saying no one is…

— Emma McLaughlin

For every woman who's ever wondered about the path not taken, Fenton and Steinke mine—with tremendous humor and insight—the mixed blessing of…

— Emma McLaughlin

As a rule, I try to steer clear of opinions pertaining to your parenting. I assume you're doing the best you can,…

— Emma McLaughlin

You should totally get implants," she said admiringly in the mirror. I shake my head. "I don't yet know what I'm going…

— Emma McLaughlin

I think just because you're a mom, it doesn't negate - if anything, you're probably more enhanced - that you're a woman…

— Emma McLaughlin