Mignon McLaughlin, 1913 - 1983
Born: 6 June 1913, Baltimore, Maryland
Died: 20 December 1983, Coral Gables, Florida
Mignon was raised at Manhattan by her mother Joyce Neuhaus, a prominent lawyer, and graduated from Smith College (Northampton, Massachusetts) in 1933. She returned to New York City as a journalist and wrote short stories for Redbook, Cosmopolitan, and other women's magazines. She married Robert McLaughlin, an editor at Time, they wrote a play together that had a short run on Broadway in the 1949 season. She worked at Vogue during the 1940s, became a copy editor at Glamour in the 1960s, retiring as managing editor in 1973. She is remembered for two slim volumes of her aphorisms, The Neurotic's Notebook (1963) and The Second Neurotic's Notebook (1966), which were also printed in a combined edition as The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981). The entries here are all believed to be from those titles.
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- A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners. permalink
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. permalink
Mignon McLaughlin - The Second Neurotic's Notebook (1966) - A nymphomaniac is a women as obsessed with sex as the average man. permalink
Mignon McLaughlin - A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. permalink
Mignon McLaughlin - The Second Neurotic's Notebook (1966) - Anything you lose automatically doubles in value. permalink
Mignon McLaughlin - As we are human, we can't do what we can't do; as we're neurotic, we can't do what we can. permalink
Mignon McLaughlin - The Neurotic's Notebook (1963) - At the beginning of a love affair, not even the neurotic is neurotic. permalink
Mignon McLaughlin - The Second Neurotic's Notebook (1966) - Being neurotic is like shooting fish in a barrel, and missing them. permalink
Mignon McLaughlin - The Second Neurotic's Notebook (1966) - Cash is the one gift everyone despises and no one turns down. permalink
Mignon McLaughlin - Confession is good for the conscience, but it usually bypasses the soul. permalink
Mignon McLaughlin - The Second Neurotic's Notebook (1966) - Courage can't see around corners, but goes around them anyway. permalink
Mignon McLaughlin - Don't be yourself. Be someone a little nicer. permalink
Mignon McLaughlin - Every group feels strong once it has found a scapegoat. permalink
Mignon McLaughlin - The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981) - Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers. permalink
Mignon McLaughlin - Everybody can write; writers can't do anything else. permalink
Mignon McLaughlin - The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
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