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 MitfordThings on the whole are much faster in America; people don't 'stand for election', they 'run for office.'
Jessica MitfordThe character and mentality of the keepers may be of more importance in understanding prisons than the character and mentality of the kept.
Jessica MitfordOne is only really inwardly comfortable, so to speak, after one's life has assumed some sort of shape. Not just a routine, like studying or a job or being a housewife, but something more complete than all those, which would include goals set by oneself and a circle of life-time type friends. I think this is one of the hardest things to achieve, in fact often just trying doesn't achieve it but rather it seems to develop almost by accident.
Jessica Mitford