Quotes About Shamming

I'm just very good at pretending.

True love, true friendship, true benevolence, true tenderness, were beautiful to her,—qualities on which she could descant almost with eloquence; and therefore she was always shamming love and friendship and benevolence and tenderness.

Owners, physicians, and overseers regularly accused female laborers of pretending to be pregnant. The charge of "shamming" was a self-serving lament as much as a legitimate concern, as it was rare for pregnant women to be given any dispensation.