"Jessica Lucy Freeman-Mitford" was an English author, journalist, civil rights activist and political campaigner, who was one of the Mitford sisters. She became an American citizen in 1944.

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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.

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

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

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

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.

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 conceded that the victory has been won hands down by the funeral establishment . . .