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Jessica Mitford quotes: Objectivity? I've always had an objective.

Objectivity? I've always had an objective.

Jessica Mitford quotes: Gracious dying is a huge, macabre and expensive joke on the American public.

Gracious dying is a huge, macabre and expensive joke on the American public.

Jessica Mitford quotes: You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty.

You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty.

Jessica Mitford quotes: It is somehow reassuring to discover that the word travel is derived from travail, denoting the pains of childbirth.

It is somehow reassuring to discover that the word travel is derived from travail, denoting the pains of childbirth.

Jessica Mitford quotes: I have nothing against undertakers personally. It's just that I wouldn't want one to bury my sister.

I have nothing against undertakers personally. It's just that I wouldn't want one to bury my sister.

Jessica Mitford quotes: Prison walls are meant not only to keep convicts in, but to keep the would-be investigator out.

Prison walls are meant not only to keep convicts in, but to keep the would-be investigator out.

Jessica Mitford quotes: Enemies are, to me, as important as friends in my life, and when they die I mourn their passing.

Enemies are, to me, as important as friends in my life, and when they die I mourn their passing.

Jessica Mitford quotes: The character and mentality of the keepers may be of more importance in understanding prisons than the character and mentality of the kept.

The character and mentality of the keepers may be of more importance in understanding prisons than the character and mentality of the kept.

Jessica Mitford quotes: Knowing few children of my age with whom to compare notes, I envied the children of literature to whom interesting things were always happening ...

Knowing few children of my age with whom to compare notes, I envied the children of literature to whom interesting things were always happening ...

Jessica Mitford quotes: Things on the whole are much faster in America; people don't 'stand for election', they 'run for office.'

Things on the whole are much faster in America; people don't 'stand for election', they 'run for office.'

Jessica Mitford quotes: Picking other people's brains is an art worth cultivating.

Picking other people's brains is an art worth cultivating.

Jessica Mitford quotes: Now there is a society where the funeral industry got completely out of control.

Now there is a society where the funeral industry got completely out of control.

Jessica Mitford quotes: The prison system, inherently unjust and inhumane, is the ultimate expression of injustice and inhumanity in the society at large.

The prison system, inherently unjust and inhumane, is the ultimate expression of injustice and inhumanity in the society at large.

Jessica Mitford quotes: Society created the prison in its own image; will history, with its penchant for paradox, reverse those roles?

Society created the prison in its own image; will history, with its penchant for paradox, reverse those roles?

Jessica Mitford quotes: 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.

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 Mitford quotes: Lifelong enemies are, I think, as hard to make and as important to one's well-being as lifelong friends.

Lifelong enemies are, I think, as hard to make and as important to one's well-being as lifelong friends.

Jessica Mitford quotes: Objectivity? I always have an objective.

Objectivity? I always have an objective.