Mignon McLaughlin: Quotes about women

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

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Women & men

Women , Men

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

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Women & men

Women , Men

“He's in for trouble—the man whose wife is detested by all women and desired by all men.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Women & men

Women , Men

“It upsets women to be, or not to be, stared at hungrily.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Women & men

Women

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

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Women & men

Women , Men , Hunger

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

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Women & men

Love , Women

“Women are the right age for just a few years; men, for most of their lives.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Women & men

Women , Men , Age

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

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Women & men

Women , Beauty , Intelligence , Happiness

“Few women care what a man looks like, and a good thing too.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Women & men

Women

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

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Women & men

Women

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

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Women & men

Women , Men , Way , Feeling

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

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Women & men

Love , Women , Men

“A young woman can live off the folly of men; a man of any age can live off the folly of women.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Women & men

Women , Men , Age

“All women are basically in competition with each other for a handful of eligible men.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Women & men

Women , Men

“Most women would like to dress imaginatively, but they glare at any woman who does.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Women & men

Women , Imagination

“Women are good listeners, but it’s a waste of time telling your troubles to a man unless there’s something specific you want him to do.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Women & men

Women , Time

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

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Women & men

Love , Women , Hate

“Women are never landlocked: they’re always mere minutes away from the briny deep of tears.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Women & men

Women , Tear

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

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Women & men

Women , Men

“Women gather together to wear silly hats, eat dainty food, and forget how unresponsive their husbands are. Men gather to talk sports, eat heavy food, and forget how demanding their wives are. Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Women & men

Women , Men , Children , Food