Kerr, Jean(nee Collins)

US author

wrote "Please Don't Eat the Daisies" 1957

wife of Walter F. Kerr 1943

• "You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help."
• "A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table."
• "If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation."
• "I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. ... What do you want-an adorable pancreas?"
• "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."