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.
Jessica MitfordSociety created the prison in its own image; will history, with its penchant for paradox, reverse those roles?
Jessica MitfordKnowing few children of my age with whom to compare notes, I envied the children of literature to whom interesting things were always happening.
Jessica MitfordThings on the whole are much faster in America; people don't 'stand for election', they 'run for office.'
Jessica Mitford