"According to one of my correspondents, Jessica Mitford was overheard to remark, "I have nothing against undertakers personally. It's just that I wouldn't want one to bury my sister.""
— Jessica Mitford

January 1, 1970

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Quoted in the Saturday Review (1 February 1964). Reported in J. M. and M. J. Cohen (eds.) The Penguin Dictionary of Modern Quotations (1971), p. 159