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
women littles able
A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine.
girl women heart
Good-looking girls break hearts, and goodhearted girls mend them.
women struggle winning
With men, as with women, the main struggle is between vanity and comfort; but with men, comfort often wins.
husband women laughing
If your husband expects you to laugh, do so; if he expects you to cry, don't; if you don't know what he expects, what are you doing married?
women water waiting
Women polish the silver and water the plants and wait to be really needed.
hate women looks
Women go to beauty parlors for the unmussed look men hate.
women want women-want
No woman wants to see herself too clearly.
women littles murder
Women are afraid of mice and of murder, and of very little in between.
women naked thirty
Women who feel naked without their lipstick are well over thirty.
strength women literature
Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show.
men competition funny-women
All women are basically in competition with each other for a handful of eligible men.
upset funny-strong-women be-or-not-to-be
It upsets women to be, or not to be, stared at hungrily.
best-love women heart
The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.
husband women wife
A husband only worries about a particular Other Man; a wife distrusts her whole species.