Mignon McLaughlin Quotes
1913–1983
Mignon McLaughlin (June 6, 1913 – December 20, 1983) was an American journalist and author.
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A young woman can live off the folly of men; a man of any age can live off the folly of women.
When a man comes to love a woman exactly as she had dreamed, she decides he is a weakling.
Women are never landlocked: they’re always mere minutes away from the briny deep of tears.
Any woman can talk herself into being in love with any man, for a while anyway.
Confession is good for the conscience, but it usually bypasses the soul.
Few women care what a man looks like, and a good thing, too.
All women are basically in competition with each other for a handful of eligible men.
Some women love only what they can hold in their arms; others, only what they can't.
Women usually love what they buy, yet hate two-thirds of what is in their closets.
Women are the right age for just a few years; men, for most of their lives.
A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine.
The soul may sleep and the body still be happy, but only in youth.
Good-looking girls break hearts, and good-hearted girls mend them.
If the pain wanders, do not waste your time with doctors.
Men who don't like girls with brains don't like girls.
A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.
On stage and off, we care what happens to a beautiful woman, whether she can act well or not.
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Mignon McLaughlin (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.