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List of Jessica Mitford Quotes

Explore our hand-picked selection of 28 inspiring quotes by Jessica Mitford.

About Jessica Mitford

  • Born: September 11, 1917
  • Died: July 22, 1996
  • Occupation: Author
    • Knowing few children of my age with whom to compare notes, i envied the children of literature to whom interesting things were always happening.
    Children Knowing Interesting
    Lifelong enemies are, i think, as hard to make and as important to one's well-being as lifelong friends.
    Thinking Enemy Important
    Now there is a society where the funeral industry got completely out of control.
    Funeral Industry
    Objectivity? i always have an objective.
    Objectivity Objectives
    In childbirth, as in other human endeavors, fashions start with the rich, are then adopted by the aspirant middle class with an assist from the ever-watchful media, and may or may not eventually filter down to the poor.
    Fashion Media Class
    It is somehow reassuring to discover that the word travel is derived from travail, denoting the pains of childbirth.
    Pain Reassuring Childbirth
    Things on the whole are faster in america; people don't stand for election, they run for office. if a person says he's sick, it doesn't mean regurgitating, it means ill. mad means angry, not insane. don't ask for the left-luggage; it's called a checkroom.
    Running Mean America
    When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? when "somebody up there" - a monarch, a dictator, a pope, a legislator - so decrees.
    Government Prison Dictator
    Prison walls are meant not only to keep convicts in, but to keep the would-be investigator out.
    Wall Would Be Prison
    I discovered that human nature was not, as i had always supposed, a fixed and unalterable entity, that wars are not caused by a natural urge in men to fight, that ownership of land and factories is not necessarily the natural reward of greater wisdom and energy.
    War Fighting Men
    A thirteen-year-old is a kaleidoscope of different personalities, if not in most ways a mere figment of her own imagination. at that age, what and who you are depends largely on what book you happen to be reading at the moment.
    Book Reading Years
    Society created the prison in its own image; will history, with its penchant for paradox, reverse those roles?
    Roles Prison Paradox
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