No one ever loved anyone the way that person wanted to be loved. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you. — Mignon McLaughlin Brave Copy Share Image
Affairs are just as disillusioning as marriage, and much less restful. — Mignon McLaughlin Affair Copy Share Image
If you hate your lot but wouldn't trade it, it's not your lot you hate. — Mignon McLaughlin Hate Copy Share Image
We often pray to be better, when in truth we only want to feel better. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
The know-nothings are, unfortunately, seldom the do-nothings. — Mignon McLaughlin Ignorance Copy Share Image
A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer. — Mignon McLaughlin Age Copy Share Image
My religious position: I think that God could do a lot better, and I'm willing to give Him the chance. — Mignon McLaughlin God Copy Share Image
The neurotic thinks himself both Hamlet and Claudius, in a world that belongs to Polonius. — Mignon McLaughlin Hamlet Copy Share Image
Many of us are equal to life's emergencies who cannot bear its day-after-dayness. — Mignon McLaughlin Bears Copy Share Image
How can a man marry wisely in his twenties? The girl he's going to wind up wanting hasn't even been born. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
We are irritated by rascals, intolerant of fools, and prepared to love the rest. But where are they? — Mignon McLaughlin Fool Copy Share Image
All women are basically in competition with each other for a handful of eligible men. — Mignon McLaughlin Competition Copy Share Image
Neurotics would like to sleep all the time, and to be awakened only when there is good news. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
There are now electrical appliances with the main unit so sealed in that it cannot be got at for repair. There have… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
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 Boundaries Copy Share Image
No one can understand love who has not experienced infatuation. And no one can understand infatuation, no matter how many times he… — Mignon McLaughlin Infatuation Copy Share Image
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 Apprentice Copy Share Image
The fault we admit to is seldom the fault we have, but it has a certain relationship to it, a somewhat similar… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
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 neurotic would like to trust his analyst - if only because he's paying him so much money. But he can't -… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
When women feel they have learned to forgive their mothers - and men, their fathers - all it usually means is that… — Mignon McLaughlin Behavior Copy Share Image
Flesh goes on pleasuring us, and humiliating us, right to the end. — Mignon McLaughlin Body Copy Share Image
“Even cowards can endure hardship; only he brave can endure suspense” — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Money: in its absence, we are coarse; in its presence, we are vulgar. — Mignon McLaughlin Absence 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
It is always safe to tell people that they're looking wonderful. — Mignon McLaughlin People Copy Share Image
Most of us would rather risk catastrophe than read the directions… — Mignon McLaughlin Catastrophe Copy Share Image
Fields can lie fallow but we can't; we have less time. — Mignon McLaughlin Entrepreneur Copy Share Image
Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children. — Mignon McLaughlin Child Copy Share Image
Every creature stalks some other, catches it, and is caught. — Mignon McLaughlin Animals Copy Share Image
