The only reason that they say, 'Women and children first' is to test the strength of the lifeboats.
Jean Kerr... it's impossible to register any emotion without using some muscle which, in time, will produce a wrinkle. ... By the time she is thirty, a starlet has been carefully taught to smile like a dead halibut. The eyes widen, the mouth drops open, but the eye muscles are never involved.
Jean KerrI don't grasp things this early in the day. I mean, I hear voices, all right, but I can't pick out the verbs.
Jean Kerr