Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

“The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well.”

“Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.”

“We 'chicks' have munched our popcorn while romantic comedies became just comedies, and then each female protagonist got recast for Matthew McConaughey or Seth Rogan.”

“My writing partner, Nicki, and I became obsessed with a monologist who performs unscripted shows equipped with nothing more than scribbled bullet points and a glass of water. We wrote him a fan letter and found ourselves sharing lunch and eventually a friendship.”

“If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping.”

“The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.”

“Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway.”

“It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.”

“We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might.”

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