Peg Bracken

"When people say it's a funny thing about them, you will probably be able to control your hysterics. They are only getting ready to announce the shattering fact that they don't like something. And it's…"

"There are worse things than being fat, and one of them is worrying about it all the time."

"If the author is so interested in Science, why doesn't she take a course in it?"

"It isn't surprising that many children consider their parents to be a little dim, and that they sometimes try to update them. The fact that they don't usually try too hard is just as well; a thoroughl…"

"When I finally gathered, invented, stole, simplified, borrowed, and found a publisher for a clutch of reasonably foolproof recipes, I learned I had friends I hadn't known about—more proof that a mutua…"

"The subject of men and women is absolutely fraught with sex, which is as it should be."