Top 15 Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

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.

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

Any woman can talk herself into being in love with any man, for a while anyway.

A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.

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