Daily Inspiration Quote by Christine Keeler

The line lands like a bruise you can’t stop touching: the insistence on “even a criminal” is both concession and indictment. Keeler isn’t asking for sainthood; she’s pointing out a baseline rule of a liberal society - that punishment has an endpoint, that identity shouldn’t be a life sentence. By setting the bar that low, she makes what happened to her look even more grotesque: if redemption is supposed to extend to criminals, what does it say that a young woman at the center of a sex-and-power scandal was denied it?

The subtext is about who gets to be “new” in public. Keeler’s case, detonated by the Profumo affair, wasn’t just tabloid fodder; it became a national morality play where establishment failure could be displaced onto a conveniently punishable body. “They made sure I did not have that” suggests an organized social machinery - press, political class, respectable society - that requires a permanent villain to stabilize its own hypocrisy.

Then comes the rhetorical masterstroke: “for ever and ever and ever and ever.” It’s childlike in structure, almost sing-song, which is precisely why it cuts. She mimics the endlessness of harassment, the way a single label can loop in headlines and dinner-party gossip until it hardens into biography. “Prostitute” here functions less as a description than as a weapon: a word that lets everyone else feel clean, while ensuring she never can.