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Mignon McLaughlin on Women

1913–1983

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31 quotes

All love is probationary, a fact which frightens women and exhilarates men.

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)

With men, as with women, the main struggle is between vanity and comfort; but with men, comfort often wins.

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)

Men prefer brief praise, pitched high; women are satisfied with praise in a lower key, just so it goes on and on.

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)

Women flirt to keep their stock high, men to get somewhere.

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)

Desire is in men a hunger, in women only an appetite.

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)

The woman just ahead of you at the supermarket checkout has all the delectable groceries you didn't even know they carried.

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)

Many beautiful women have been made happy by their own beauty, but no intelligent woman has ever been made happy by her own intelligence.

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)

Men feel that women somehow drag them down, and women feel that way about men. It's possible they are right.

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)

Between a man and a woman both aged fifty there are two full generations, for she might well wed a man in his seventies, and he a girl of twenty.

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)

Bored with your present enemies? Make new ones! Tell two of your women friends that they look alike.

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)

Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man.

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Mignon McLaughlin (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.