Mignon McLaughlin (June 6, 1913 - December 20,1983) was an
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. 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.
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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)
Mignon McLaughlin (June 6, 1913 - December 20,1983) was an
AmericanThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
journalistA journalist is a person who practises journalism, the gathering and dissemination of information about current events, trends, issues, and people while striving for viewpoints that are not biased.Reporters are one type of journalist...
and
authorAn author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created...
. 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 CollegeSmith College is a private, independent women's liberal arts college located in Northampton, Massachusetts. It is the largest member of the Seven Sisters...
, 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
RedbookRedbook is an American women's magazine published by the Hearst Corporation. It is one of the "Seven Sisters", a group of women's service magazines.-History:...
,
CosmopolitanCosmopolitan is an international magazine for women. It was first published in 1886 in the United States as a family magazine, was later transformed into a literary magazine and eventually became a women's magazine in the late 1960s...
, and other women's magazines.
She worked for
Vogue magazineVogue is a fashion and lifestyle magazine published in 16 countries + Latin America by Condé Nast Publications. Each month, Vogue publishes a magazine addressing topics of fashion, life and design.-Style and influence:...
in the 1940s, and was Copy Editor and Managing Editor of
Glamour magazineGlamour is a women's magazine published by Condé Nast Publications. Glamour is a very successful magazine. Founded in 1939 in the United States, it was originally called Glamour of Hollywood....
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 McLaughlinRobert E McLaughlin was an American journalist and author. He was an Editor at TIME Magazine for more than 20 years and was the author of numerous short stories, three novels, and The Heartland, volume in the TIME-LIFE Library of America series.He was born in Chicago on September 21, 1908, the...
—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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