23 Quotes & Sayings By Jean Kerr

Jean Kerr is a best-selling author, teacher and life coach. Born in Scotland in 1930, she came to America at age 15. In 1969 she was a staff writer on the television series, The Secret Storm (starring Charlton Heston) and later wrote the bestselling novel, Ice Palace (1970). Kerr's inspirational books include the novels Ice Palace (1970), The Ice Queen (1972), Daughter of the Wind (1973), The Priory (1980), The Soul Stealers (1985), Return to Dragon's Keep (1987) and the nonfiction book, Journey to Ixtlan: Teaching Through Masks (2001) Read more

She has won six Golden Leaf Awards for her work. She lives in New Mexico.

Do you know how helpless you feel if you have...
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Do you know how helpless you feel if you have a full cup of coffee in your hand and you start to sneeze? Jean Kerr
Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man...
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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
I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only...
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I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas? Jean Kerr
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The only reason that they say, 'Women and children first' is to test the strength of the lifeboats. Jean Kerr
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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 home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house. Jean Kerr
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I'm tired of all the nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want - an adorable pancreas? Jean Kerr
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I don't want to see the uncut version of anything. Jean Kerr
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I think success has no rules but you can learn a great deal from failure. Jean Kerr
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I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want an adorable pancreas? Jean Kerr
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If you can keep your head when all about are losing theirs it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation. Jean Kerr
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The thing about having a baby is that thereafter you have it. Jean Kerr
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If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation. Jean Kerr
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Confronted by an absolutely infuriating review it is sometimes helpful for the victim to do a little personal research on the critic. Is there any truth to the rumor that he had no formal education beyond the age of eleven? In any event is he able to construct a simple English sentence? Do his participles dangle? When moved to lyricism does he write "I had a fun time"? Was he ever arrested for burglary? I don't know that you will prove anything this way but it is perfectly harmless and quite soothing. Jean Kerr
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Hope is the feeling that the feeling you have isn't permanent. Jean Kerr
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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. Jean Kerr
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I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure. Jean Kerr
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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
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The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible. Jean Kerr
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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. Jean Kerr
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I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on. Jean Kerr
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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
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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