“Good girls hold their heads high by daylight, Their grace and their virtue soaring with kites,While bad girls slink along in their shame-Everyone stares at them, everyone blames.But those bad girls sleep soundly at night,Ne'er do their consciences wake them in a fright,While our good girls toss and they turn-They lay awake for those who will burn.”

“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.”

“It is a fact of big cities that one girl's darkest how is always another's moment of shining triumph, and New York is the biggest and cruelest city of them all.”

“All really interesting girls invent themselves.”

“Love is all right, as things go, but lovers can be a terrible waste of a girl's time.”

“Even when a girl is married she still never completely leaves her mother and father's home.”

“...when girls use the brightness of their eyes or the softness of their skin, they have an uncommon advantage in getting what they want.”