About Jean Kerr: Jean Kerr was an Irish-American author and playwright born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and best known for her humorous bestseller, Please Don't Eat the Daisies, and the plays King of Hearts and Mary, Mary.
The only reason that they say, 'Women and children first' is to test the strength of the lifeboats.
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.
Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.
The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.
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.
