Enemies are, to me, as important as friends in my life, and when they die I mourn their passing.
Jessica MitfordPrison walls are meant not only to keep convicts in, but to keep the would-be investigator out.
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