Jessica Mitford quote: "Walking through the streets of New Haven (Conn.) with William Sloane Coffin Jr. is like being in a movie about a small-town folk hero. People come up to shake his hand, students run after him with urgent questions, old folks stop their cars to call out, 'Good luck Bill!' and 'Howdy, Reverend."

In childbirth, as in other human endeavors, fashions start with the rich, are then adopted by the as...
JESSICA MITFORD

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

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

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

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

I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I...
NANCY MITFORD

I Love children, especially when they cry for then someone takes them away.
NANCY MITFORD

To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.
NANCY MITFORD

Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory?
NANCY MITFORD

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off: it may run about in a li...
NANCY MITFORD

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a li...
NANCY MITFORD

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the ...
WILLIAM MITFORD

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a li...
NANCY MITFORD

Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
NANCY MITFORD

Always be civil to the girls, you never know who they may marry' is a aphorism which has saved many ...
NANCY MITFORD

All the heat there was seemed to concentrate in the Hons' cupboard, which was always stifling. Here ...
NANCY MITFORD

I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away
NANCY MITFORD

"Twenty-three and a quarter minutes past," Uncle Matthew was saying furiously, "in precisely six and...
NANCY MITFORD

Even if I take him out for three hours every day, and go and chat to him for another hour, that leav...
NANCY MITFORD

I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
NANCY MITFORD

If I had a girl I should say to her, 'Marry for love if you can, it won't last, but it is a very int...
NANCY MITFORD

Isn't it lovely to be lovely me!
NANCY MITFORD

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the ...
WILLIAM MITFORD

Dogs are all, more or less, physiognomists, and commonly pretty determined aristocrats, fond of the ...
MARY RUSSELL MITFORD

She [Jane Austen] was then the prettiest, silliest, most affected, husband-hunting butterfly she eve...
MARY RUSSELL MITFORD

To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun.
MARY RUSSELL MITFORD

She was the prettiest, silliest, most affected, husband-hunting butterfly ever.
MARY RUSSELL MITFORD

Perpendicular, precise and taciturn.
MARY RUSSELL MITFORD

It's quite funny in that I once won Rear of the Year at my school! I was about 17 in the sixth f...
JESSICA ENNIS

I live a healthy lifestyle and I crave healthy food. I love porridge - I have bizarre cravings for i...
JESSICA LOWNDES

It's not fair that women look in the mirror and feel disgust because of what society has made th...
JESSICA SIMPSON

My personal style is kind of tomboy-boho chic! Sort of funky but simple.
JESSICA SZOHR

I hope that by modeling feminism in my own life, work and relationships that it will haut become an ...
JESSICA VALENTI

Working with Bryan Cranston on 'Breaking Bad' has been totally thrilling because he is so cl...
JESSICA HECHT

Life is not simple, and people can't be boxed into being either heroes or villains.
JESSICA HAGEDORN

In my own eyes, I could only see how ridiculous I looked. How typical white-girl-goes-to-Africa. But...
JESSICA POSNER

I help out at Tall Trees, which my aunt set up on the Central Coast. It's where intellectually i...
JESSICA MCNAMEE

I would love for the time to come where somebody can talk about me and not have to talk about Britne...
JESSICA SIMPSON

Some days I'll be like, 'I didn't do anything great today,' and I'll be bummed. ...
JESSICA WILLIAMS

Everyone has areas they're not comfortable with, and mine are my bum, thighs, and legs.
JESSICA BIEL

Is that weird, taking my Louis Vuitton bag camping?
JESSICA SIMPSON

Well I think any designer that can understand what people need to be wearing right now is the bigges...
JESSICA SIMPSON

I can talk to my dad like he's my manager, and put 'Dad' on the back burner. We've b...
JESSICA SIMPSON

My natural gravitation is toward the gray and the black and the white and the burgundy. Sort of mute...
JESSICA PARE

The most important event I covered was the Panama Canal debate, which dragged on for months.
JESSICA SAVITCH

It's been fascinating working on a set in New York. Just to be in the thick of it is really inte...
JESSICA COLLINS

I'm looking forward to playing the meatier roles you get in your 30s. The early 20s can be a har...
JESSICA MARAIS

I can't get enough of London! I love all the picnic benches, the old-school phone booths and par...
JESSICA LOWNDES

I don't want to be in my car all day. I love getting up in the morning in Venice and walking my ...
JESSICA CHASTAIN

I like to sing around the bonfire, in my car and in the shower.
JESSICA PARE

I'm such a blonde. It just doesn't make sense for me to have dark hair.
JESSICA SIMPSON

Once I started on 'Frances' I discovered it was literally a bottomless well. It devastated m...
JESSICA LANGE

I didn't want to have braces when I was a kid and I'm pretty sure my dad didn't want to ...
JESSICA PARE

I don't like to try very hard. Most of the time it's just jeans, a T-shirt and Converse trai...
JESSICA HART

I'm big-busted... I can't always wear the cutest bras, and it makes me so mad.
JESSICA SIMPSON

I grew up in Long Island City. When I was growing up, my parents owned a women's clothing store ...
JESSICA VALENTI

Bra-burning never happened. It was completely made up by the media. A couple of women protesting a M...
JESSICA VALENTI

I love 'Gossip Girl.' I used to hang out with Blake Lively and Jessica Szohr. I'm also a...
JESSICA STROUP

The Kardashians are walking clickbait - but let's look closer. Do Kim and Kanye affect how socie...
JESSICA WILLIAMS

When I started blogging in 2004, I responded to every comment no matter how nasty the reader was. I ...
JESSICA VALENTI

Everyone should have a blog. It's the most democratic thing ever.
JESSICA CUTLER

..the hope I have for women: that we can start to see ourselves-and encourage men to see us-as more ...
JESSICA VALENTI

You clumsy wench—Gods above! Are you trying to rob me, girl?” The nobleman seizes my wrist and y...
JESSICA KHOURY

What’s the worst possible thing you can call a woman? Don’t hold back, now.
You’re probab...
JESSICA VALENTI

Thanks for giving me a place to sleep last night,
and for the extra blanket.
Vi.<...
JESSICA SHIRVINGTON

Maybe it’s not as clear-cut as that. Maybe it’s the very presence of one thing – light or dark...
JESSICA SHIRVINGTON

We eat. We sleep. We keep going.
JESSICA PARK

When you learn not to want things so badly, life comes to you.
JESSICA LANGE

Games require skill. Running requires endurance, character, pride, physical strength, and mental tou...
JESSICA PROPST

Quality is a proud and soaring thing.
JESSICA JULIAN

Living in L.A., everyone likes to mold you and change you. I don't care about fame, I don't care abo...
JESSICA ALBA

I want to experience that massive adrenalin rush when you step into a new stadium, all the more so w...
JESSICA ENNIS

I have been definitely influenced more by Latin American writers than by any other type of writer. T...
JESSICA HAGEDORN

Allison Jones, a big casting director out there, was like, 'They're casting 'The Daily S...
JESSICA WILLIAMS

At school my boobs were bigger than all my friends' and I was afraid to show them. Now, I feel t...
JESSICA SIMPSON

When I do comedy, I lose all inhibition and introspection. I no longer care.
JESSICA ALBA

I don't ever really feel that wearing my wedding ring is what determines me being married or not...
JESSICA SIMPSON

Wedding fever is one of the scariest diseases I have ever seen.
JESSICA VALENTI

As I grew up and began identifying myself as a feminist, there were plenty of issues that continued ...
JESSICA VALENTI

In interviews I gave early on in my career, I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a...
JESSICA SAVITCH

A marriage doesn't have to be perfect, but you can be perfect for each other.
JESSICA SIMPSON

I was raised in a strict Southern household in Lexington, South Carolina, and I remember sneaking of...
JESSICA STROUP

I'm a naughty sweetheart.
JESSICA SIMPSON

Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.
JESSICA LANGE

My drawing, like that of most cartoonists, is intended first of all to be functional: to create beli...
JESSICA ABEL

The sexiest thing about style is if you kind of just take your personality and put it in what you we...
JESSICA SZOHR

People think the gold medal is yours and they say you're going to win - but they have no idea ho...
JESSICA ENNIS

The stereotypes of feminists as ugly, or man-haters, or hairy, or whatever it is - that's really...
JESSICA VALENTI

TV is sort of the only way to go for an actress my age to make a decent salary; with independent fil...
JESSICA LANGE

I never felt like I belonged in Minnesota when I was growing up there. That's why I was out the ...
JESSICA LANGE

For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home.
JESSICA LANGE

To my mind the election was stolen by George Bush and we have been suffering ever since under this m...
JESSICA LANGE

What I love about photography, and it's the same thing I love about acting, really, is that it f...
JESSICA LANGE

Sometimes parts just come along when it's the perfect time for you to do them.
JESSICA LANGE

It comes down to something really simple: Can I visualize myself playing those scenes? If that happe...
JESSICA LANGE

I love being a mother. I loved being a daughter, a sister, a wife. I love being a woman with men. I ...
JESSICA LANGE

Because Shakespeare's language is so expansive, we're under this misconception that it's...
JESSICA LANGE

At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are mo...
JESSICA LANGE

If you're really in the process of photographing, you are absolutely aware. You are looking.
JESSICA LANGE

I never think of the future. I never imagine what comes next.
JESSICA LANGE

One of the things I love about acting is that it reveals a certain something about yourself, but it ...
JESSICA LANGE

There's something magical still about it when I get in a darkroom, and you've shot a roll of...
JESSICA LANGE

I like playing characters who are out there on the edge, where they can explode at any moment or fal...
JESSICA LANGE

This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural.
JESSICA LANGE

There are no explanations, there are no answers.
JESSICA LANGE

Allow the diversity to exist. There is nothing wrong with it. Hell, we put up with the religious rig...
JESSICA LANGE

Families survive, one way or another. You have a tie, a connection that exists long after death, thr...
JESSICA LANGE

I've never been a sunny personality. I've never been outgoing. I'm a solitary person.
JESSICA LANGE

Photography was a blessing because it filled my time.
JESSICA LANGE

For me, acting was always a way to explore emotions - to dip into the well and really try to reach r...
JESSICA LANGE

I have been a waitress, and I was a damn fine waitress too, let me tell you.
JESSICA LANGE

All I have to say is: Jessica Simpson is the most beautiful woman on the planet!
JESSICA SIMPSON

I'm very active when I'm not pregnant, but I think fitness should be a natural part of your ...
JESSICA CAPSHAW

The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the ce...
JESSICA LANGE

I'm part Spanish. My paternal grandfather came from Spain via Singapore to Manila. On my mother&...
JESSICA HAGEDORN

After filming, I can't wait to shake off all that '50s primness. I'll go out to a gig an...
JESSICA RAINE

I worked on my voice for Sweet Dreams, but only to match my speaking voice to Patsy's actual sin...
JESSICA LANGE

I remember the first time I put on the Army uniform. I just felt like a totally different person - I...
JESSICA LYNCH

Circuit training is a great way to go. Keeping the reps high and the weight low, you'll tone you...
JESSICA STROUP

I love yoga, and I love circuit training where you can do five exercises, 15-20 reps of each exercis...
JESSICA LOWNDES

They all seem infected with a vivaciousness that isn't common in our compound, and there are more sm...
JESSICA KHOURY

(Mr. Friedman) was always kind of dopey."
"Actually, Bob is very smart. Too smart to be a teach...
JESSICA KNOLL

My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what yo...
JESSICA ALBA

I made sure no butt cheek hung out. You know, the original Daisy, Catherine Bach's shorts were s...
JESSICA SIMPSON

I was skeptical about doing Texas Chainsaw at first because it's such a cult classic. I'd se...
JESSICA BIEL

When you really see how much God loves you, there's no greater love than that, and I had to matc...
JESSICA WHITE

Karma comes after everyone eventually. You can't get away with screwing people over your whole life,...
JESSICA BRODY

I'm a Midwesterner! Not being able to have a cheeseburger once in a while would be torture!
JESSICA CAPSHAW

Maternal health remains a staggering challenge, particularly in the developing world. Globally, a wo...
JESSICA CAPSHAW

Child-rearing can be a tedious and thankless undertaking.
JESSICA VALENTI

Sex for pleasure, for fun, or even for building relationships is completely absent from our national...
JESSICA VALENTI

Is this chicken, what I have, or is this fish? I know it's tuna, but it says 'Chicken by the Sea.
JESSICA SIMPSON

Stupid kissing. Stupid roaming hands. Stupid boys.
JESSICA PARK

[Hannah:] Here is to Rylie Cates: May your pens never run out of ink, your computer never run out of...
JESSICA LAVE

I don't come from a rich family - it's not like we lived in a cardboard box, but we didn'...
JESSICA LYNCH

My first acting experience was a non-speaking role as a robot. My costume was a cardboard box covere...
JESSICA RAINE

I've seen straight, partnered women explain their decision to stay at home by noting that childc...
JESSICA VALENTI

I was raised on songs of poetry like Simon and Garfunkel and Cat Stevens and Neil Young, etc. I love...
JESSICA STEEN

I'm proud of the way I've dealt with setbacks. It's hard when you feel down and you thin...
JESSICA ENNIS

My father is Indonesian Timorese, my mother Aboriginal Australian.
JESSICA MAUBOY

The color and the diversity dies out, and it gets whiter and whiter, and that's in any field. Th...
JESSICA WILLIAMS

When you see the way some people write women, especially in studio movies, it's like, 'Sorry...
JESSICA WILLIAMS

I have a black pair of suede Jimmy Choos. I've only worn them once to a Sony event. The heels ha...
JESSICA MAUBOY

I do like potato chips, French fries and Barney's burgers in L.A. with seasoned curly fries.
JESSICA BIEL

I had my bad-boy moment in my teens. I'll never do that again. It wasn't pleasant, and I lea...
JESSICA BIEL

I have good and bad days like everyone else. I just try to be positive and surround myself with grea...
JESSICA WHITE

My Barbies were usually naked. Once, I took their heads off, cut their hair, drew on their short, sp...
JESSICA BIEL

Heartbreak has definitely been a big inspiration for me. You can write about a bad situation and jus...
JESSICA LOWNDES

I don't want to look like Daisy Duke every day. I don't want to wear a bathing suit every da...
JESSICA SIMPSON

Never refuse an assignment except when there is a conflict of interest, a potential of danger to you...
JESSICA SAVITCH

Feminism isn't simply about being a woman in a position of power. It's battling systemic ine...
JESSICA VALENTI

New York is where you go to catch a big fish.
JESSICA CUTLER

'Mad Men' has been my big break. I'm beyond thrilled.
JESSICA PARE

I regret those times when I've chosen the dark side. I've wasted enough time not being happy...
JESSICA LANGE

You've got to love this business. You have to be able to take rejection.
JESSICA BIEL

And life needs to be interesting because we've only got one of them to live.
JESSICA SORENSEN

I realise now that I wanted to disappear. To get so lost that nobody ever found me. To go so far awa...
JESSICA WARMAN

I just let the pain take over, allowing it to numb the pain of being left behind.
JESSICA SORENSEN

When I am home for like a two-year stretch, I get antsy, because I want to work.
JESSICA LANGE

I think Angelina Jolie has done amazing, amazing things, and the international adoption rate just si...
JESSICA SIMPSON

I'm a 10th-generation Texan. My ancestor - Andrew Kent - fought at the Alamo.
JESSICA COLLINS

To unwind after training, I love to have a long hot soak in the bath, then veg out on the sofa with ...
JESSICA ENNIS

When you fail, fail, and then find your 'No' in life, your Next Opportunity. When you find your next...
JESSICA BRODY

Women didn't want to watch other women on television because they were jealous of their husbands...
JESSICA SAVITCH

I always knew that the only thing I wanted to do was act, but it took me a long time to say it out l...
JESSICA RAINE

I do get scared of the dentist, so a drive-through dentist might make me feel more at home. If I got...
JESSICA PARE

To get the adrenaline pumping between events - or to help me switch off, Jay Z, the Roots and Drake ...
JESSICA ENNIS

Motherhood is a dream. It really is absolutely amazing.
JESSICA SIMPSON

It's not my plan or whatever in my life to be a sex symbol. It never is. You are who you are, bu...
JESSICA BIEL

I'm always thinking about what a black lady would think about what I'm doing, just because I...
JESSICA WILLIAMS

The better the coverage, the more discriminating the viewer.
JESSICA SAVITCH

He makes a face and tosses the flower at me. It lands on my cheek, and I pick it up and twirl it bet...
JESSICA KHOURY

There's nothing worse than being disappointed in somebody.
JESSICA SIMPSON

As all entrepreneurs know, you live and die by your ability to prioritize. You must focus on the mos...
JESSICA JACKLEY

Now, should we treat women as independent agents, responsible for themselves? Of course. But being r...
JESSICA VALENTI

Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain.
JESSICA SAVITCH

I think that freshness and that innocence is something that is missing from a lot of female singers....
JESSICA SIMPSON

Basketball would have been the natural sport to play, but it's a little too aggressive for me, s...
JESSICA WILLIAMS

My idea of beauty is somebody that doesn't have to try too much, someone who is effortless and f...
JESSICA ENNIS

Through a huge duration of my life, someone has always picked up after me. And when you're on yo...
JESSICA SIMPSON

When he's late for dinner, I know he's either having an affair or is lying dead in the street. I alw...
JESSICA TANDY

My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what yo...
JESSICA ALBA

You've done a nice job decorating the White House.
JESSICA SIMPSON

Twenty-three is old. It's almost 25, which is like almost mid-20s.
JESSICA SIMPSON

I think that freshness and that innocence is something that is missing from a lot of female singers....
JESSICA SIMPSON

Some people's lives seem to flow in a narrative; mine had many stops and starts. That's what trauma ...
JESSICA STERN

People will always consider me a cartoon character, a bimbo. They will never give me credit.
JESSICA HAHN

Billy Graham talks about how he doesn't judge people. I don't either. Some people I am just ...
JESSICA HAHN

Something that doesn't show sweat. Something that is no fuss; something that isn't see-through. Thos...
JESSICA ALBA

they're like an accessory!!
JESSICA SIMPSON

We're eyeballing the first line ... Something that gets an emotional response out of one of the coun...
JESSICA EADS

I have problems because I'm very expressive, and usually red lipstick gets on my teeth and face.
JESSICA CHASTAIN

Tammy Faye, I pray for every day. I really liked her. I wanted to be in their family.
JESSICA HAHN

Tammy Faye, I really like the woman. I wanted to be her kid.
JESSICA HAHN

Tammy Faye said, I am so happy that Jessica Hahn is so ugly, because now I don't feel so bad.
JESSICA HAHN

There's a really positive side of being an introvert - you really pick up on things a lot more t...
JESSICA WILLIAMS

I know that I'm already in the history books and that people are going to remember me as the pri...
JESSICA LYNCH

Women may not have it easy, but we are given a fairer chance to reach for the top.
JESSICA SAVITCH

What's gratifying for me and interesting is that people are picking up on exactly what I want th...
JESSICA ABEL

Finding a technical cofounder would have been difficult for me. I was an English major and didn'...
JESSICA LIVINGSTON

Walking through the streets of New Haven (Conn.) with William Sloane Coffin Jr. is like being in a movie about a small-town folk hero. People come up to shake his hand, students run after him with urgent questions, old folks stop their cars to call out, 'Good luck Bill!' and 'Howdy, Reverend.

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