They would sit and talk and tell us their hard luck story. Whether it was true or not, we never questioned it. It’s very important you learn people a… - Studs Terkel

I'm celebrated for celebrating the uncelebrated.

Hope has never trickled down. It has always sprung up.

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.