Mignon McLaughlin (June 6, 1913 – December 20, 1983) was an American journalist and author.
Tough and funny and a little bit kind: that is as near to perfection as a human being can be.
The only mothers it is safe to forget on Mother's Day are the good ones.
Women flirt to keep their stock high, men to get somewhere.
Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun.
Luck: when your burst of energy doesn't run afoul of someone else's.
We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might.
A doctor recently described to me "benign positional vertigo": it means you get dizzy in certain positions, but you can get over it without necessarily changing the position. Change "vertigo" to "anxiety," and you've summed up the neurotic's plight.
What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.
A productive marriage requires falling in enjoy numerous occasions, usually with the identical man or woman.
A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine.
Neurotics think of the past with resentment, and the future with dread; the present just doesn't exist.
Suburb: a place that isn't city, isn't country, and isn't tolerable.
The neurotic doesn't know how to cope with his emotional bills; some he keeps paying over and over, others he never pays at all.
The past is rich in lessons from which we would greatly profit except that the present is always so full of Special Circumstances.
We come late, if at all, to wine and philosophy: whiskey and action are easier.
We can never at any time absorb more love than we're ready for.
Don't be yourself - be someone a little nicer.
It's awesome to realize that if your greatest potential talent is for riding a bicycle upside down on a high wire, you will somehow discover it.
We work for praise, and dawdle once we have it.
Women are never landlocked: they're always mere minutes away from the briny deep of tears.