Best Quotes by Jessica Mitford (Top 10)
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You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty.
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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.
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Gracious dying is a huge, macabre and expensive joke on the American public.
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Objectivity? I've always had an objective.
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O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? Where, indeed. Many a badly stung survivor, faced with the aftermath of some relative's funeral, has ruefully concluded that the victory has been won hands down by a funeral establishment - in disastrously unequal battle.
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I have nothing against undertakers personally. It's just that I wouldn't want one to bury my sister.
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I discovered that Human Nature was not, as I had always supposed, a fixed and unalterable entity, that wars are not caused by a natural urge in men to fight, that ownership of land and factories is not necessarily the natural reward of greater wisdom and energy.
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One 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.
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Things on the whole are much faster in America; people don't 'stand for election', they 'run for office.'
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It is somehow reassuring to discover that the word travel is derived from travail, denoting the pains of childbirth.
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More Jessica Mitford Quotes
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In 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.
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