“I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tuna-fish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock.”

—  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Cited in: Bill Adler (2001) Funny Ladies: The Best Humor from America's Funniest Women, p. 86

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