Mignon McLaughlin on Women
1913–1983
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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.
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.
Good-looking girls break hearts, and good-hearted girls mend them.
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.
An attractive woman likes feminine company until she's twenty, and after she's twenty-five.
When a woman reaches forty, she must wait twenty years for her husband to catch up.
Most women would like to dress imaginatively, but they glare at any woman who does.
It upsets women to be, or not to be, stared at hungrily.
He's in for trouble—the man whose wife is detested by all women and desired by all men.
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Mignon McLaughlin (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.