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Who was Mignon McLaughlin?

Mignon McLaughlin was an Americanjournalist and author. She wrote two volumesentitled Neurotic's Notebook. She 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 automaticallydoubles in value."

⁕"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 College, Northampton, Massachusetts, in 1933 and returned to New York, where she embarked on a career as a journalist and a writer of shortstories for Redbook, Cosmopolitan, and other women's magazines.

She worked for Vogue magazine in the 1940s, and was Copy Editor and Managing Editor of Glamour magazine in the 1960s and early 1970s.

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

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