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 Heart sand Mary, Mary.

Born Bridget Jean Collins in Scranton, Pennsylvania, to Tom and Kitty Collins, Kerr grew up on Electric Street in Scranton and attended Mary wood Seminary, the topic of her humorous short story “When I was Queen of the May”.

She received a Bachelor’s Degree from Mary wood College in Scranton and later attended The Catholic University of America, where she received her master’s degree and met then-professor Walter Kerr.

Date of birth:
10th July, 1922
Date of death:
5th January, 2003
"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."
― Jean Kerr
Topic(s): Women
"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."
― Jean Kerr
Topic(s): Marriage
"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
Topic(s): Home
"The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible."
― Jean Kerr
Topic(s): Health
"Some people have such a talent for making the best of a bad situation that they go around creating bad situations so they can make the best of them."
― Jean Kerr
Topic(s): Best
"I’m tired of all this nonsense about beauty being skin deep. That’s deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?"
― Jean Kerr
Topic(s): Beauty

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