Gossip is just a tool to distract people who have nothing better to do from feeling jealous of those few of us still remaining with noble hearts.

Girls took to dressing like boys, and though women had obtained the vote, we had swiftly moved on to pursuing flashier freedoms: necking in cars and smoking cigarettes and walking down city streets in flesh colored stockings.

Life was a short window and there was no sense in doing the wrong thing over and over even if it was so difficult to stop.

Diana knew it wouldn't be right, but then she told herself that things only looked wrong when there was someone to see you.

As she always did on any really important day, Penelope Hayes wore red.

That is what I want to tell you about: the girls with their short skirts and bright eyes and big-city dreams. The girls of 1929.

The world is such a marvel - it gave you trials, but if you were still and concentrated, if you tried to do the right thing, it always provided you with salvation.