Death and life in a place (Forster)
April 18th, 2006 | Published in Community, Agrarianism, Quotes
“To be parted from your house, your father’s house—it oughtn’t to be allowed. It is worse than dying. I would rather die than—Oh, poor girls! Can what they call civilization be right, if people mayn’t die in the room where they were born?” [Mrs. Wilcox]
–E. M. Forster, Howards End (1910), p. 70