“As best I could make out, having never heard the term until I arrived in California, being a WASP meant being mossbacked, lockjawed, rigid, humorless, cold, charmless, insipid, less than penetratingly bright, but otherwise---and inexplicably---to be envied.”
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Kay Redfield Jamison,
An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
