The character and mentality of the keepers may be of more importance in understanding prisons than the character and mentality of the kept.
Jessica MitfordI have nothing against undertakers personally. It's just that I wouldn't want one to bury my sister.
Jessica MitfordI 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.
Jessica MitfordFuneralese 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