533 Quotes by Mignon McLaughlin

We sometimes feel that we have been really understood, but it was always long ago, by someone now dead.

Many of us are equal to life's emergencies who cannot bear its day-after-dayness.

I'm always there to tell people that their life is not that bad. I wish it was easy to follow that advice.

Happiness is like the penny candy of our youth: we got a lot more for our money back when we had no money.

All women are basically in competition with each other for a handful of eligible men.

The first two days of a vacation are endless; then it flies.

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.

Some women love only what they can hold in their arms; others, only what they can't.

The neurotic feels as though trapped in a gas-filled room where at any moment someone, probably himself, will strike a match.