Evvie Quotes

“Nightmare with all its poetry and muddle takes place at the thin edge of time.”
― Vera Caspary, Evvie

“This had wiped out the last trace of faith in my sister’s sex instruction; that it was beastly. If it was so beastly, I wondered, why do girls in books always become pregnant.”
― Vera Caspary, Evvie

“Nice girls who stayed at home and depended upon their fathers until they found husbands to support them could not afford the luxury of being modern. Freedom was less a moral than an economic fact.”
― Vera Caspary, Evvie

“For this was the age of The Girl. We had come out of the back parlor, out of the kitchen and nursery, we turned our backs upon the blackboards, shed aprons and paper cuffs. A war had freed us and given women a new kind of self-respect.
The adjective poor no longer preceded the once disreputable "working girl". It was honorable, it was jolly, it was even superior to be a "career girl".”
― Vera Caspary, Evvie