This coming December, it’ll be three years I made the trip to California. I got a sister out there. I stayed out there over the Christmas holidays an… - Studs Terkel

Much as I hate to say it, the Second World War did end the Great Depression. I think we solve our problems by killing our boys and others.

A man? If I need a man, wouldn't you think I'd have one of my own? Must I wait for you?

We had to go to stew school for five weeks. We’d go through a whole week of make-up and poise. I didn’t like this. They make you feel like you’ve never been out in public. They showed you how to smoke a cigarette, when to smoke a cigarette, how to look at a man’s eyes. Our teacher, she had this idea we had to be sexy. One day in class she was showing us how to accept a light for a cigarette from a man and never blow it out. When he lights it, just look in his eyes. It was really funny, all the girls laughed.