Mignon McLaughlin (June 6, 1913 – December 20, 1983) was an American journalist and author.
Neurotics expect you to remember all the things that they tell you, and many that they don't.
There are three iron links in the neurotic's chain: unloving, unlovable, unloved.
Men who don't like girls with brains don't like girls.
Fields can lie fallow but we can't; we have less time.
The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all.
There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.
Creative work is one of life's greatest pleasures, and the only one we will gladly interrupt.
It's terrifying to see someone inside of whom a vital spring seems to have been broken. It's particularly terrifying to see him in your mirror.
Mumps, measles, and puppy love are terrible after twenty.
When you let money speak for you, it drowns out anything else you meant to say.
The chief reason for drinking is the desire to behave in a certain way, and to be able to blame it on alcohol.
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.
So long as God reveals Himself, or doesn't, He is behaving like God.
Women are the right age for just a few years; men, for most of their lives.
An old racetrack joke reminds you that your program contains all the winners' names. I stare at my typewriter keys with the same thought.
It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't.
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 blessed.
Few novels or plays could exist without at least one troublemaker in the group, and perhaps life couldn't either.
There's an awful lot of blood around that water is thicker than.
Neurotics are sure that no one understands them, and they wouldn't have it any other way.