Mignon McLaughlin

Desire is in men a hunger, in women only an appetite.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Love looks forward, hate looks back, anxiety has eyes all over its head.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Luck: when your burst of energy doesn't run afoul of someone else's.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Healthy parakeets have the nervous energy of tennis players.

— Mignon McLaughlin

The trouble with women is men; the trouble with men, men.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Courage doesn't know what's around the corner, but goes around it anyway.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Failure can get to be a rather comfortable old friend.

— Mignon McLaughlin

There are always a few people you do a lot for, and a few who do a lot for you, but they're…

— Mignon McLaughlin

The marriage of convenience has this to recommend it: we are better judges of convenience than we are of love.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Women usually love what they buy, yet hate two-thirds of what is in their closets.

— Mignon McLaughlin

A love that lasts for twenty years may be better than love, but it isn't love.

— Mignon McLaughlin

I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little…

— Mignon McLaughlin

We are keenly aware of the faults of our friends, but if they like us enough it doesn't matter.

— Mignon McLaughlin

With each passing year, one has less to say, and knows better how to say it.

— Mignon McLaughlin

When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.

— Mignon McLaughlin

The neurotic would like to trust his analyst - if only because he's paying him so much money. But he can't -…

— Mignon McLaughlin

When women feel they have learned to forgive their mothers - and men, their fathers - all it usually means is that…

— Mignon McLaughlin

Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had, for the first involves knowledge…

— Mignon McLaughlin

Each day, the American housewife turns toward television as toward a lover. She feels guilty about it, and well she might, for…

— Mignon McLaughlin

One day you are an apprentice, and everybody's pet; the next, you are coldly expected to deliver. There is never sufficient warning…

— Mignon McLaughlin

The fault we admit to is seldom the fault we have, but it has a certain relationship to it, a somewhat similar…

— Mignon McLaughlin

No one can understand love who has not experienced infatuation. And no one can understand infatuation, no matter how many times he…

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a…

— Mignon McLaughlin

Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man.

— Mignon McLaughlin

If it came true, it wasn't much of a dream.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Men who don't like girls with brains don't like girls.

— Mignon McLaughlin

The neurotic has perfect vision in one eye, but he cannot remember which.

— Mignon McLaughlin

When the pain is great enough, we will let anyone be doctor.

— Mignon McLaughlin

If you must reread old love letters, better pick a room without mirrors.

— Mignon McLaughlin

The young do not need God, and the old cannot find Him.

— Mignon McLaughlin

The neurotic believes that life has meaning, but that his life hasn't.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Few of us write great novels; all of us live them.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Without enthusiasm, virtue functions not at all, and vice only poorly.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun.

— Mignon McLaughlin

The only mothers it is safe to forget on Mother's Day are the good ones.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Others follow patterns; we alone are unpredictable.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Men gossip less than women, but mean it.

— Mignon McLaughlin

We are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.

— Mignon McLaughlin