Mignon McLaughlin

Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before.

— Mignon McLaughlin

We welcome passion, for the mind is briefly let off duty.

— Mignon McLaughlin

The soul may sleep and the body still be happy, but only in youth.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Suburb: a place that isn't city, isn't country, and isn't tolerable.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Age is a slowing down of everything except fear.

— Mignon McLaughlin

My thoughts, I guess, are bitter; who but the bitter have thoughts?

— Mignon McLaughlin

We always prefer war on our own terms to peace on someone else's.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Men really prefer reasonably attractive women; they go after the sensational ones to impress other men.

— Mignon McLaughlin

What a shame that allowances have to stop with the teens: both those that are paid to us and those that are…

— Mignon McLaughlin

We come late, if at all, to wine and philosophy: whiskey and action are easier.

— Mignon McLaughlin

If your children spend most of their time in other people's houses, you're lucky; if they all congregate at your house, you're…

— Mignon McLaughlin

It's impossible to be loyal to your family, your friends, your country, and your principles, all at the same time.

— Mignon McLaughlin

The way the neurotic sees it: bars on his door mean that he's locked in; bars on your door mean that he's…

— Mignon McLaughlin

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.

— Mignon McLaughlin

The chief reason for drinking is the desire to behave in a certain way, and to be able to blame it on…

— Mignon McLaughlin

Neurotics are always looking for something new to overdo.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Mumps, measles, and puppy love are terrible after twenty.

— Mignon McLaughlin

No woman wants to see herself too clearly.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Neurotics dream of a good life, or a great suicide note.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Every group feels strong once it has found a scapegoat.

— Mignon McLaughlin

The plague of government is senile delinquency.

— Mignon McLaughlin

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

— Mignon McLaughlin

No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Acedia is not in every dictionary; just in every heart.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Few of us could bear to have ourselves for neighbors.

— Mignon McLaughlin

When threatened, the first thing a democracy gives up is democracy.

— Mignon McLaughlin

It upsets women to be, or not to be, stared at hungrily.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Men never know how tired they are till their wives sit them down for a nice long talk.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Anything you do from the heart enriches you, but sometimes not till years later.

— Mignon McLaughlin

If an article is attractive, or useful, or inexpensive, they'll stop making it tomorrow; if it's all three, they stopped making it…

— Mignon McLaughlin

All love is probationary, a fact which frightens women and exhilarates men.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Good food, good sex, good digestion, good sleep: to these basic animal pleasures, man has added nothing but the good cigarette.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Men feel that women somehow drag them down, and women feel that way about men. It's possible that both are right.

— Mignon McLaughlin

What we love about love is the fever, which marriage puts to bed and cures.

— Mignon McLaughlin

People find it hard to be both comic and serious, though life manages it easily enough.

— Mignon McLaughlin

I often pray, though I'm not really sure Anyone's listening; and I phrase it carefully, just in case He's literary.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Of all second-class citizens, neurotics are the only ones who are so by choice.

— Mignon McLaughlin

If only we could be old and sick while we're still young and healthy enough to put up with it!

— Mignon McLaughlin

A woman's mink coat represents the sacrifice of a lot of little animals, including her husband.

— Mignon McLaughlin