SubscribeMignon McLaughlin Love Quotes and Love Sayings
Posted on Oct 10, 2008 under M, Mignon McLaughlin | No Comment1. In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
2. A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
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Excerpt from Wikipedia: 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.
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More Quotes:
1. Courage can’t see around corners but goes around them anyway.
2. Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.
3. There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
4. We are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.
