Every morning I woke in dread, waiting for the day nurse to go on her rounds and announce from the list of names in her hand whether or not I was for shock treatment, the new and fashionable means of quieting people and of making them realize that orders are to be obeyed and floors are to be polished without anyone protesting and faces are to be made to be fixed into smiles and weeping is a crime.

Famous Quotes / Janet Frame

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Janet Frame: "Every morning I woke in dread, waiting for the day nurse to go on her rounds and announce from the list of names in her hand whether or not I was for shock treatment, the new and fashionable means of quieting people and of making them realize that orders are to be obeyed and floors are to be polished without anyone protesting and faces are to be made to be fixed into smiles and weeping is a crime."

Quotations about

Announce	Anyone	Crime	Dread
Every	Faces	Fashionable	Fixed
Floors	Hand	Into	List
Made	Making	Means	Morning
Names	Nurse	Obeyed	Orders
People	Polished	Protesting	Quieting
Realize	Rounds	Shock	Smiles
Them	Treatment	Waiting	Weeping
Whether	Without	Woke

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Every morning I woke in dread, waiting for the day nurse to go on her rounds and announce from the list of names in her hand whether or not I was for shock treatment, the new and fashionable means of quieting people and of making them realize that orders are to be obeyed and floors are to be polished without anyone protesting and faces are to be made to be fixed into smiles and weeping is a crime. - Janet Frame