Quote #5

I never meet anyone nowadays who admits to having had a happy childhood. Everyone appears to think happiness betokens a lack of sensitivity.

More from Jessamyn West

  1. We can love an honest rogue, but what is more offensive than a false saint?
  2. In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?
  3. In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults. They frolic with animals, caress them, share with them feelings neither has …
  4. Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise-when that's the only paradise he'll ever have a chance to enter.

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