Mignon McLaughlin - Women Quotes

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Men feel that women somehow drag them down, and women feel that way about men. It's possible that both are right.

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Many beautiful women have been made happy by their own beauty, but no intelligent woman has ever been made happy by her own intelligence.

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Men really prefer reasonably attractive women; they go after the sensational ones to impress other men.

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Women gather together to wear silly hats, eat dainty food, and forget how unresponsive their husbands are. Men gather to talk sports, eat heavy food, and forget how demanding their wives are. Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun.

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Women are good listeners, but it's a waste of time telling your troubles to a man unless there's something specific you want him to do.

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Women who feel naked without their lipstick are well over thirty.

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Women usually love what they buy, yet hate two-thirds of what is in their closets.

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Some women love only what they can hold in their arms; others, only what they can't.

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Men prefer brief praise, pitched high; women are satisfied with praise in a lower key, just so it goes on and on.

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Women are the right age for just a few years; men, for most of their lives.

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All love is probationary, a fact which frightens women and exhilarates men.

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With men, as with women, the main struggle is between vanity and comfort; but with men, comfort often wins.

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Men enjoy being thought of as hunters, but are generally too lazy to hunt. Women, on the other hand, love to hunt, but would rather nobody knew it.

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When women feel they have learned to forgive their mothers - and men, their fathers - all it usually means is that they've decided to allow themselves the same kind of behavior.

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Women are never landlocked: they're always mere minutes away from the briny deep of tears.

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Women polish the silver and water the plants and wait to be really needed.

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