Peg Bracken

"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 doesnt she take a course in it?"

"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 hadnt known about—more proof that a mutual dislike can be quite as sound a basis for friendship as a mutual devotion."

"It isnt surprising that many children consider their parents to be a little dim, and that they sometimes try to update them. The fact that they dont usually try too hard is just as well; a thoroughly updated parent is an unappetizing sight."

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

"When people say its 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 dont like something. And its not going to be something thats really quite awful, like suttee or apartheid; its going to be something small."