Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

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

Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.

It is the difference betwixt lust and love that this is fixed, that volatile. Love grows, lust wastes by enjoyment.

People say that love is the best thing in the world not power. But they are wrong. Love is the opposite of power and that's why we fear it so much.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Every relationship I've been in, I've overwhelmed the girl. They just can't handle all the love.

Free love never works.

The truth is my love life has been a lot more turbulent than I have let on.

There is a fundamental difference between men and women - women need romance, men need intrigue.

The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.

In love, somehow, a man's heart is always either exceeding the speed limit, or getting parked in the wrong place.

Very few people can truly divorce themselves from what they feel emotionally and sexually.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

I never analyze why I was with one woman instead of another.

I think the whole tension about romanticism is the way it builds and builds, and the moment it's consummated, the tension's over.

Lust is what keeps you wanting to do it even when you have no desire to be with each other. Love is what makes you want to be with each other even when you have no desire to do it.

People will still love and hurt and yearn.

I believe very strongly that when it comes to desire, when it comes to attraction, that things are never black and white, things are very much shades of grey.

It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.

To wrap up the idea of 'Parade's End' in a sentence or two, I would say it's a love story in which we see a man with two women, and we know what's attractive about them. And we know why and what they feel about him.

Women want to feel wanted. Men want to feel needed.

I think biologically we are attracted to more than one person, but given society and our needs, monogamy works better.

Sex is hardly ever just about sex.

I think everybody wants love, and everybody wants to feel alive.

I'm one of those people who loves love. I'm fascinated by it: what it does to us, how it messes us up.