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Jenny Joseph Quotes

When I am old, I shall wear purple.

When I am old, I shall wear purple.

Jenny Joseph
Purple
"Older and wiser: Carol Ann Duffy introduces poems of ageing". www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2010.

I was raised to feel that doing nothing was a sin. I had to learn to do nothing.

Jenny Joseph
Doing Nothing, Sin, Raised
The Observer, April 19, 1998.

The craziest, most selfish act is to commit suicide. When you kill yourself, you kill others.

Jenny Joseph
Suicide, Selfish, Killing Yourself

I can't stand purple. It doesn't suit me.

Jenny Joseph
Purple, Suits, I Can

When I am an old woman I shall wear purple, With a red hat which doesn't go and doesn't suit me, And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves, And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter.

Jenny Joseph
Summer, July, Purple
"Warning" l. 1 (1965)

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