I've no time for broads who want to rule the world alone. Without men, who'd do up the zipper on the back of your dress? - Mae West

Girls who responded to the advertisement and then were willing to put themselves under Fong's wing, so to speak, till they could be inspected by the theatrical agent' were of a type that had no important family ties. (…) Each had a story behind her, but it was the story of the hundreds, the thousands. It was the story of a little ambition and a great hope; of immense trust and a few brains; of false pride and tragic courage. They were but units in the great mass of humanity which seem destined to struggle vainly for any realization of happiness and who go under in the backwash of the tide of living.

A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.

Goodness, what beautiful diamonds!' 'Goodness had nothing to do with it'.