Quotes from Mignon McLaughlin

Women polish the silver and water the plants and wait to be really needed.

When women feel they have learned to forgive their mothers - and men, their fathers - all it usually means is that they've decided to allow themselves the same kind of behavior.

Women go to beauty parlors for the unmussed look men hate.

Men gossip less than women, but mean it.

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.

It's wonderful to watch pretty women with character grow beautiful.

They threaten me with lung cancer, and still I smoke and smoke. If they'd only threaten me with hard work, I might stop.

The three horrors of modern life - talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction.

To smoke or not to smoke: I can make of either a life-work.

There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.

Despair is anger with no place to go.

Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest! What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.

We work for praise, and dawdle once we have it.

Your best work always seems to have been done by someone else.

An artist usually has no friends except other artists, and usually they do not like his work.

Creative work is one of life's greatest pleasures, and the only one we will gladly interrupt.

Goods are displayed by thousands of shopkeepers with a sense of beauty that finds no other outlet.

Don't fool yourself that important things can be put off till tomorrow; they can be put off forever, or not at all

If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious.

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

We are all such a waste of our potential, like three-way lamps using one-way bulbs.

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

Self-confidence grows on trees, in other people's orchards.

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.