Mignon McLaughlin

Who was Mignon McLaughlin?

Mignon McLaughlin was an American journalist and author. She wrote two volumes entitled Neurotic's Notebook. She is known for a number of quotes, among them:

⁕"A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person."

⁕"Anything you lose automatically doubles in value."

⁕"Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers."

Mignon McLaughlin was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and grew up in New York City, where her mother, Joyce Neuhaus, was a prominent lawyer. She graduated from Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, in 1933 and returned to New York, where she embarked on a career as a journalist and a writer of short stories for Redbook, Cosmopolitan, and other women's magazines.

She worked for Vogue magazine in the 1940s, and was Copy Editor and Managing Editor of Glamour magazine in the 1960s and early 1970s. She retired to Florida in 1973. She died in Coral Gables, Florida on December 20, 1983.

With her husband Robert McLaughlin—an editor at TIME Magazine—she wrote the play Gayden, which had a limited run on Broadway during the 1949 season.

Famous Quotes:

• It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.
• Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
• What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly.
• 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.
• For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.
• It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
• We would all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap.
• Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we are going to show.
• No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
• It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.