Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Each day, the American housewife turns toward television as toward a lover. She feels guilty about it, and well she might, for he's covered with warts and is only after her money.
Mignon McLaughlin
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Mignon McLaughlin
Age: 70 †
Born: 1913
Born: June 6
Died: 1983
Died: December 20
Journalist
Writer
the United States of America
American
Housewife
Money
Lover
Wells
Covered
Might
Guilty
Well
Lovers
Feels
Toward
Television
Turns
Warts
More quotes by Mignon McLaughlin
The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.
Mignon McLaughlin
A doctor recently described to me benign positional vertigo: it means you get dizzy in certain positions, but you can get over it without necessarily changing the position. Change vertigo to anxiety, and you've summed up the neurotic's plight.
Mignon McLaughlin
The marriage of convenience has this to recommend it: we are better judges of convenience than we are of love.
Mignon McLaughlin
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
Cash is the one gift everyone despises and no one turns down.
Mignon McLaughlin
Love looks forward, hate looks back, anxiety has eyes all over its head.
Mignon McLaughlin
We can never understand other people's motives, nor their furniture.
Mignon McLaughlin
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
Mignon McLaughlin
What we love about love is the fever, which marriage puts to bed and cures.
Mignon McLaughlin
Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun.
Mignon McLaughlin
When their children fail to charm others, few parents can stay neutral.
Mignon McLaughlin
We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap.
Mignon McLaughlin
If there is something you must do and you cannot do it, you cannot do anything else.
Mignon McLaughlin
As we grow older, our capacity for enjoyment shrinks, but not our appetite for it.
Mignon McLaughlin
My thoughts, I guess, are bitter who but the bitter have thoughts?
Mignon McLaughlin
Not for nothing does the neurotic suffer - but not for anything very much, either.
Mignon McLaughlin
Always live up to your standards — by lowering them, if necessary.
Mignon McLaughlin
The neurotic believes that life has meaning, but that his life hasn't.
Mignon McLaughlin
The neurotic always wishes people would let him alone - until they do.
Mignon McLaughlin
It upsets women to be, or not to be, stared at hungrily.
Mignon McLaughlin