Mignon McLaughlin (June 6, 1913 – December 20, 1983) was an American journalist and author.
When first we fall in love, we feel that we know all there is to know about life, and perhaps we are right.
The two main hazards of psychoanalysis: that it might fail, and that if it succeeds, you'll never be able to forgive yourself for all those wasted years.
The trouble with women is men; the trouble with men, men.
The next voice you hear will undoubtedly be your own.
The plague of government is senile delinquency.
Desire creates havoc when it is the only thing between two people, or when it is what's missing.
The neurotic would like to trust his analyst - if only because he's paying him so much money. But he can't - because if the analyst really cared, he'd be doing it for nothing.
Neurotics are anxiety prone, accident prone, and often just prone.
As we grow older, our capacity for enjoyment shrinks, but not our appetite for it.
Pull yourself together' is seldom said to anyone who can.
Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had, for the first involves knowledge and pleasure, the second only ignorance and pain.
It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.
With each passing year, one has less to say, and knows better how to say it.
Age is a slowing down of everything except fear.
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Women usually love what they buy, yet hate two-thirds of what is in their closets.
The young do not need God, and the old cannot find Him.
Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality.
A parent who has never apologized to his children is a monster. If he's always apologizing, his children are monsters.
If I knew why I worried so much, I wouldn't worry.