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 MitfordI have nothing against undertakers personally. It's just that I wouldn't want one to bury my sister.
Jessica MitfordIn 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 MitfordAlas, poor Yorick! How surprised he would be to see how his counterpart of today is whisked off to a funeral parlor and is in short order sprayed, sliced, pierced, pickled, trussed, trimmed, creamed, waxed, painted, rouged and neatly dressed - transformed from a common corpse into a Beautiful Memory Picture.
Jessica Mitford