Society created the prison in its own image; will history, with its penchant for paradox, reverse those roles? Jessica Mitford More Quotes by Jessica Mitford More Quotes From Jessica Mitford Knowing few children of my age with whom to compare notes, I envied the children of literature to whom interesting things were always happening. Jessica Mitford knowing children interesting It is somehow reassuring to discover that the word travel is derived from travail, denoting the pains of childbirth. Jessica Mitford childbirth reassuring pain 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. Jessica Mitford fashion media class Funeralese has had its ups and downs. The word 'morticians,' first used in Embalmers Monthly for February, 1895, was barred by the Chicago Tribune in 1932, 'not for lack of sympathy with the ambition of undertakers to be well regarded, but because of it. If they haven't the sense to save themselves from their own lexicographers, we shall not be guilty of abetting them in their folly. Jessica Mitford chicago ambition firsts 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. Jessica Mitford dictator government prison Prison walls are meant not only to keep convicts in, but to keep the would-be investigator out. Jessica Mitford wall prison would-be Objectivity? I always have an objective. Jessica Mitford objectivity objectives
