When threatened, the first thing a democracy gives up is democracy.

- Mignon Mclaughlin

The past is strapped to our backs. We do not have to see it; we can always feel it.

- Mignon Mclaughlin

Flesh goes on pleasuring us, and humiliating us, right to the end.

- Mignon Mclaughlin

Don't be yourself - be someone a little nicer.

- Mignon Mclaughlin

Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.

- Mignon Mclaughlin

For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.

- Mignon Mclaughlin

If there is something you must do and you cannot do it, you cannot do anything else.

- Mignon Mclaughlin

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

- Mignon Mclaughlin

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

- Mignon Mclaughlin