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.

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• Mignon McLaughlin:

  Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

• Mignon McLaughlin:

  A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.

• Mignon McLaughlin:

  For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.

• Mignon McLaughlin:

  Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

• Mignon McLaughlin:

  Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.

• Mignon McLaughlin:

  Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show.

• Mignon McLaughlin:

  In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.

• Mignon McLaughlin:

  We are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.

• Mignon McLaughlin:

  A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.

• Mignon McLaughlin:

  There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.