All Mignon McLaughlin Quotes
- When women feel they have learned to forgive their mothers - and men, their fathers - all it usually means is that they've decided to… All
- It upsets women to be, or not to be, stared at hungrily. Funny
- All women are basically in competition with each other for a handful of eligible men. All
- Men enjoy being thought of as hunters, but are generally too lazy to hunt. Women, on the other hand, love to hunt, but would rather… Enjoy
- Throughout our lives, we see in the mirror the same innocent trusting face we have seen there since childhood. Childhood
- We are like people with short-term leases on summer cottages; we can never seem to make our provisions come out even with our stay. Cottages
- Many of us are equal to life's emergencies who cannot bear its day-after-dayness. Bear
- People find it hard to be both comic and serious, though life manages it easily enough. Both
- Elegimos aquellos que nos gusta, con los que amamos, no tenemos voz en el asunto. Aquellos
- The soul may sleep and the body still be happy, but only in youth. Body
- Each day, the American housewife turns toward television as toward a lover. She feels guilty about it, and well she might, for he's covered with… American
- Most of our diversions do not so much delay death as accustom us to it. Accustom
- A woman ought to look up to her husband, if only a half-inch. Half
- You can't truthfully explain your smallest action without fully revealing your character. Action
- Women are never landlocked: they're always mere minutes away from the briny deep of tears. Always Mere
- Flesh goes on pleasuring us, and humiliating us, right to the end. Body
- Few novels or plays could exist without at least one troublemaker in the group, and perhaps life couldn't either. Boldness
- Suburb: a place that isn't city, isn't country, and isn't tolerable. Cities
- We semaphore from ship to ship, but they're sinking, too. From
- Comfort, or revelation: God owes us one of these, but surely not both. Both