A biography for Mignon McLaughlinhasn’t been written yet.
“There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.”
“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”
“Likely as not, the child you can do the least with will do the most to make you proud.”
“The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.”
“The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well.”
“It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.”
“There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them.”
“An old racetrack joke reminds you that your program contains all the winners' names. I stare at my typewriter keys with the same thought.”
“What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.”
“Most of us would rather risk a catastrophe than read the instructions.”
“Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.”
“It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.”
“No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves.”
“I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth.”
“No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.”
“In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.”
“Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding that this is not for keeps; that any limb you climb out on will still be there later for you to climb back.”
“A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.”
“There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.”
“Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense.”