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Mignon McLaughlin (June 6, 1913 - December 20, 1983) was an American journalist and author. She is author of the quote: "A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person." She wrote the first and second Neurotic's Notebooks, and is also the author of this quote: "Anything you lose automatically doubles in value." She has also been credited with "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 powerful and touching 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.

External links

• List of Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

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Mignon McLaughlin (1913 – 1983) was an American journalist and author.

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• Women usually love what they buy, yet hate two-thirds of what is in their closets.
  • The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

• A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
  • The Second Neurotic's Notebook, Bobbs-Merrill, New York, NY, 1966, p. 11.
• Good food, good sex, good digestion, good sleep: to these basic animal pleasures, man has added nothing but the good cigarette.
  • The Second Neurotic's Notebook (1966)

• Confession is good for the conscience, but it usually bypasses the soul.
  • The Second Neurotic's Notebook (1966)

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• Anything you lose automatically doubles in value.

• Don't be yourself. Be someone a little nicer.

• Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

The Neurotic's Notebook

• Most sermons sound to me like commercials — but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product.

• Nobody really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.

The Second Neurotic's Notebook, Bobbs-Merrill, New York, NY, 1966, p. 21

• The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.

• What you can't get out of, get into whole-heartedly.

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