In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
Mignon McLaughlin on Mother's Day
1913–1983
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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
All love is probationary, a fact which frightens women and exhilarates men.
Love is often gentle, desire always a rage.
Whether or not you love television, you've got to admit that it certainly loves itself.
After the chills and fever of love, how nice is the 98.6 degrees of marriage!
The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever.
What we love about love is the fever, which marriage puts to bed and cures.
Love looks forward, hate looks back, anxiety has eyes all over its head.
If you must reread old love letters, better pick a room without mirrors.
At the beginning of a love affair, not even the neurotic is neurotic.
Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before.
No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.
Mumps, measles, and puppy love are terrible after twenty.
There's no way to repay a mother's love, or lack of it.
Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name.
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Mignon McLaughlin (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.