Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man.

- Mignon McLaughlin

Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough.

- Mignon McLaughlin

It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't.

- Mignon McLaughlin

The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.

- Mignon McLaughlin

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

- Mignon McLaughlin

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

- Mignon McLaughlin

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

- Mignon McLaughlin

There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.

- Mignon McLaughlin

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

- Mignon McLaughlin

We would all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap.

- Mignon McLaughlin

What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly.

- Mignon McLaughlin

Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.

- Mignon McLaughlin

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

- Mignon McLaughlin

If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you.

- Mignon McLaughlin

If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious.

- Mignon McLaughlin

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

- Mignon McLaughlin

What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.

- Mignon McLaughlin

We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap.

- Mignon McLaughlin

Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

- Mignon McLaughlin

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

- Mignon McLaughlin