Jessica Mitford - Quotations

Quotations

  • "Objectivity? I've always had an objective."
  • (at a museum exhibit on Egyptian embalming) "Now there is a society where the funeral industry got completely out of control."
  • When Evelyn Waugh wrote in a review of The American Way of Death that Mitford did not have "a plainly stated attitude to death," Mitford asked her sister Deborah to tell Waugh, "Of course I'm against it."

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