Mignon McLaughlin

“No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.”

“I tell you this, and I tell you plainWhat you have done, you will do againYou will bite your tongue, careful or notUpon the already-bitten spot”

“A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.”

“Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before.”

“Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name”

“Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway.”

“The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.”

“You never realize how tacky your furniture is till you try to give it to the Salvation Army and they won't take it.”

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

“What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.”

“It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.”

“Women usually love what they buy, yet hate two-thirds of what is in their closets.”

“Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had”

“There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.”

“Some women love only what they can hold in their arms; others, only what they can't.”

“Only where children gatheris there any real chance of fun.”

“An old racetrack joke reminds you that your program contains all the winners' names. I stare at my typewriter keys with the same thought.”

“The hardest learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.”

“A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.”

“The best work is done with the heart breaking, or overflowing.”

“Even cowards can endure hardship; only he brave can endure suspense”

“Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else.”

“Mama does everything for the baby, who responds by saying Dada first. ”

“Many of us go through life feeling as an actor might feel who does not like his part and does not believe in the play.”

“Our strenght is often composed of the weakness we're damned if we're going to show.”

“In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.”

“There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's a writer sitting down to write.”

“If you hate your lot but wouldn't trade it, it's not your lot you hate.”

“Men who don't like girls with brains don't like girls.”

“Don't be yourself. Be someone a little nicer.”

“It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.”

“True remorse is never just a regret over consequences; it is a regret over motive.”

“Hate leaves ugly scars, love leaves beautiful ones.”

“Life marks us all down, so it's just as well that we start out by overpricing ourselves.”

“Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.”

“No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.”

“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times -- always with the same person.”

“We sometimes feel that we have been really understood, but it was always long ago, by someone now dead.”

“Para un buen matrimonio hay que enamorarse muchas veces, siempre de la misma persona.”