“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 it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.”

—  Jean Kerr

"The Ten Worst Things about a Man"
The Snake Has All the Lines (1960)

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Irish-American author and playwright 1922–2003

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