Jean Kerr

I make mistakes; I'll be the second to admit it.

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?

Do you know how helpless you feel if you have a full cup of coffee in your hand and you start to sneeze?

Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself-like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation. 

The only reason that they say, 'Women and children first' is to test the strength of the lifeboats.

The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible

Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself - like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.