Mignon McLaughlin (1913–83) was an American journalist and author. She wrote two volumes entitled Neurotic’s Notebook. She is known for a number of quotes, among them: “A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.” “Anything you lose automatically doubles in value.” “Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.” Mignon McLaughlin was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and grew up in New York City, where her mother, Joyce Neuhaus, was a prominent lawyer. She graduated from Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, in 1933 and returned to New York, where she embarked on a career as a journalist and a writer of short stories for Redbook, Cosmopolitan, and other women’s magazines. She worked for Vogue magazine in the 1940s, and was Copy Editor and Managing Editor of Glamour magazine in the 1960s and early 1970s. She retired to Florida in 1973. She died in Coral Gables, Florida on December 20, 1983. With her husband Robert McLaughlin—an editor at TIME Magazine—she wrote the play Gayden, which had a limited run on Broadway during the 1949 season.
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No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Love, Realistic Expectations
Every society honors its live conformists
and its dead troublemakers.
—Mignon McLaughlin
People are made of flesh and blood and a miracle fibre called courage.
—Mignon McLaughlin
If the pain wanders, do not waste your time with doctors.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Health
Don’t fool yourself that important things can be put off till tomorrow; they can be put off forever, or not at all.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Life marks us all down, so it’s just as well that we start out by overpricing ourselves.
—Mignon McLaughlin
We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Self-Discovery
Courage can’t see around corners, but goes around them anyway.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Courage
Few of us write great novels; all of us live them.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Life
Those who are brutally honest are seldom so with themselves.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Self-Discovery
Surrounded by people who love life, you love it too; surrounded by people who don’t, you don’t.
—Mignon McLaughlin
In any family, measles are less contagious than bad habits.
—Mignon McLaughlin
The death of someone we know always reminds us that we are still alive – perhaps for some purpose which we ought to re-examine.
—Mignon McLaughlin
It is important to our friends to believe
that we are unreservedly frank with them,
and important to friendship that we are not.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Too much money is as demoralizing as too little, and there’s no such thing as exactly enough.
—Mignon McLaughlin
We are like people with short-term leases on summer cottages; we can never seem to make our provisions come out even with our stay.
—Mignon McLaughlin
A new wound makes all the old ones ache again.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding that this is not for keeps; that any limb you climb out on will still be there later for you to climb back.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Hate leaves ugly scars, love leaves beautiful ones.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Love
Men prefer brief praise, pitched high; women are satisfied with praise in a lower key, just so it goes on and on.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Hope, Feelings
What we forgive too freely doesn’t stay forgiven.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Forgiveness
The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Love
Many things can make you miserable for weeks; few can bring you a whole day of happiness.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Happiness
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