List of Jessica Mitford Quotes

Knowing Few Children Of My Age With Whom To Compare Notes, I Envied The Children Of Literature To Whom Interesting Things Were Always Happening.

Lifelong Enemies Are, I Think, As Hard To Make And As Important To One's Well-being As Lifelong Friends.

Now There Is A Society Where The Funeral Industry Got Completely Out Of Control.

Objectivity? I Always Have An Objective.

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.

It Is Somehow Reassuring To Discover That The Word Travel Is Derived From Travail, Denoting The Pains Of 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.

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.

Prison Walls Are Meant Not Only To Keep Convicts In, But To Keep The Would-be Investigator Out.

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.

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.

Society Created The Prison In Its Own Image; Will History, With Its Penchant For Paradox, Reverse Those Roles?