Society created the prison in its own image; will history, with its penchant for paradox, reverse those roles?
Jessica MitfordPrison walls are meant not only to keep convicts in, but to keep the would-be investigator out.
Jessica Mitfordthe whole point of muck-raking, apart from all the jokes, is to try to do something about what you've been writing about. You may not be able to change the world but at least you can embarrass the guilty.
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