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 (1922-2003) American author and playwright [b. Bridget Jean Collins]

Essay (1959-03), “The Ten Worst Things About a Man,” McCall’s, Vol. 87, No. 6
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Collected in her The Snake Has All the Lines (1960).