Mignon McLaughlin
Mignon McLaughlin
Mignon McLaughlinwas an American journalist and author. In the 1950s, she began publishing aphorisms that were later collected in three books, entitled, The Neurotic’s Notebook, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook and The Complete Neurotic’s Notebook. She is known for a number of quotes, among them:...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth6 June 1913
CountryUnited States of America
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Women gather together to wear silly hats, eat dainty food, and forget how unresponsive their husbands are. Men gather to talk sports, eat heavy food, and forget how demanding their wives are. Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun.
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Love requires a willingness to die; marriage, a willingness to live.
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Men never know how tired they are till their wives sit them down for a nice long talk.
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What we love about love is the fever, which marriage puts to bed and cures.
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Ma-ma does everything for the baby, who responds by saying Da-da first.
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All women are basically in competition with each other for a handful of eligible men.
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It upsets women to be, or not to be, stared at hungrily.
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Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun.
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Mumps, measles, and puppy love are terrible after twenty.
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There's nothing wrong with most men's egos that the kowtowing of a headwaiter can't cure.
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A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine.
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There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we count ourselves among them.
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We would all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap.
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Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.