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Jean Harris

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Jean Struven Harris was the headmistress of The Madeira School for girls in McLean, Virginia, who made US news in the early 1980s when she was tried and convicted of the murder of her ex-lover, Herman Tarnower, a well-known cardiologist and author of the best-selling book The Complete Scarsdale Medi.

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Notable works: Looseleaf for American Democracy Now

About Jean Harris

Jean Struven Harris was the headmistress of The Madeira School for girls in McLean, Virginia, who made US news in the early 1980s when she was tried and convicted of the murder of her ex-lover, Herman Tarnower, a well-known cardiologist and author of the best-selling book The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Jean Harris

The prison guards are capable of committing daily atrocities and obscenities, smiling the smile of the angels all the while.

Angel

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Overnight I became a cottage industry.

Cottages

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It would be ugly to watch people poking sticks at a caged rat. It is uglier still to watch rats poking sticks…

Caged

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You learn about gratitude by giving. You learn about humility by receiving, and in the pecking order of human qualities, I'd probably…

Giving

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Loving an old bachelor is always a no-win situation, and you come to terms with that early on, or you go away.

Bachelors

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I had led a private life and wanted to die a private death.

Death

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