Quotes from Mignon McLaughlin

Affairs are just as disillusioning as marriage, and much less restful.

A woman ought to look up to her husband, if only a half-inch.

Many marriages are simply working partnerships between businessmen and housekeepers.

A hypochondriac is one who has a pill for everything except what ails him.

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

Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense.

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

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

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

There's nothing wrong with most men's egos that the kowtowing of a headwaiter can't cure.

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

Men really prefer reasonably attractive women; they go after the sensational ones to impress other men.

Men never know how tired they are till their wives sit them down for a nice long talk.

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

Men enjoy being thought of as hunters, but are generally too lazy to hunt. Women, on the other hand, love to hunt, but would rather nobody knew it.

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

Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show.

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

Good-looking girls break hearts, and goodhearted girls mend them.

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

If your husband expects you to laugh, do so; if he expects you to cry, don't; if you don't know what he expects, what are you doing married?

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

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

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