533 Quotes by Mignon McLaughlin

What's for dinner is the only question many husbands ask their wives, and the only one to which they care about the answer.

One day you are an apprentice, and everybody's pet; the next, you are coldly expected to deliver. There is never sufficient warning that the second day is coming.

Women are never landlocked: they're always mere minutes away from the briny deep of tears.

Age is a slowing down of everything except fear.

Learn a little of anything, and you're ready to proselytize.

Suburb: a place that isn't city, isn't country, and isn't tolerable.

Despair is anger with no place to go.

Cash is the one gift everyone despises and no one turns down.

Flesh goes on pleasuring us, and humiliating us, right to the end.