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词条 Mignon McLaughlin
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  1. Biography

  2. Aphorisms

  3. External links

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Mignon McLaughlin (June 6, 1913 – December 20, 1983) was an American journalist and author.

Biography

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Mignon McLaughlin was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and grew up in New York City, where her mother, Joyce Neuhaus, was a prominent attorney. She graduated from Smith College in 1933 and returned to New York, embarking on a career as a journalist and a writer of short stories for Redbook, Cosmopolitan, and other women's magazines.

With her husband, Time editor Robert McLaughlin, she wrote the play Gayden, which had a limited run on Broadway during the 1949 season.{{citation needed|date=March 2019}}

In the 1950s, she began publishing aphorisms that were later collected in three books:The Neurotic’s Notebook, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, and The Complete Neurotic’s Notebook.

She worked for Vogue in the 1940s and was copy editor and managing editor of Glamour in the 1960s and early 1970s.

She retired in 1973 and died in Coral Gables, Florida, on December 20, 1983.

Aphorisms

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McLaughlin is known for a number of quotes, among them:

  • "A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person."
  • "Anything you lose automatically doubles in value."
  • "Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers."
  • "The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind."

External links

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  • Mignon McLaughlin, profile at The Neglected Books Page
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