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It’s innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn’t.
MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN, The Neurotic's Notebook
I'm afraid to win, and afraid to lose; I hate a draw and can't stop competing; otherwise I'm fine.
MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN, The Neurotic's Notebook
What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.
MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN, The Complete Neurotic's Notebook
Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN, The Neurotic's Notebook
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN, The Complete Neurotic's Notebook
Confession is good for the conscience, but it usually bypasses the soul.
MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN, The Neurotic's Notebook
Men who don't like girls with brains don't like girls.
MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN, The Atlantic, 1965
We are all such a waste of our potential, like three-way lamps using one-way bulbs.
MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN, attributed, The Confidence Plan
Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man.
MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN, The Neurotic's Notebook
Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before.
MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN, The Neurotic's Notebook
Neurotic: someone who can go from the bottom to the top, and back again, without ever once touching the middle.
MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN, The Second Neurotic's Notebook
Every group feels strong once it has found a scapegoat.
MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN, The Complete Neurotic's Notebook
Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.
MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN, The Neurotic's Notebook
We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap.
MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN, The Neurotic's Notebook
Neurotics make poor patriots; if you're ashamed of something as big as yourself, it's hard to be proud of something as small as your country.
MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN, The Second Neurotic's Notebook
The only kind of courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN, The Second Neurotic's Notebook
When threatened, the first thing a democracy gives up is democracy.
MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN, The Complete Neurotic's Notebook
Men prefer brief praise, pitched high; women are satisfied with praise in a lower key, just so it goes on and on.
MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN, The Neurotic's Notebook
Hate leaves ugly scars, love leaves beautiful ones.
MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN, The Complete Neurotic's Notebook
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN, The Neurotic's Notebook
Our strength is often composed of the weakness we're damned if we're going to show.
MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN, The Second Neurotic's Notebook
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN, attributed, Women Know Everything!
Everybody can write; writers can't do anything else.
MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN, The Complete Neurotic's Notebook
Nobody really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN, The Second Neurotic's Notebook
- Only where children gather
- is there any real chance of fun.
MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN, The Atlantic, 1960
Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else.
MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN, The Complete Neurotic's Notebook
Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway.
MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN, The Neurotic's Notebook
Most sermons sound to me like commercials — but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product.
MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN, The Neurotic's Notebook
Anything you lose automatically doubles in value.
MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN, attributed, Sixteen Steps to Six Figures
A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.
MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN, The Complete Neurotic's Notebook
The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.
MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN, attributed, Women Know Everything!
The neurotic circles ceaselessly above a fogged-in airport.
MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN, The Neurotic's Notebook
If you hate your lot but wouldn't trade it, it's not your lot you hate.
MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN, attributed, The Only Buddha in Town
Women usually love what they buy, yet hate two-thirds of what is in their closets.
MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN, attributed, Being Truly You ... for Women
Don't fool yourself that important things can be put off til tomorrow; they can be put off forever, or not at all.
MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN, attributed, The Psychology of Procrastination
What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly.
MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN, The Second Neurotic's Notebook
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