Home Front Girl Quotes

“Oh you, my generation!- we were a lovely lot! Sharp minds- arguing all the time and brittle bodies and even more brittle laughter- and all the time knowing that we were growing up to die.”
― Joan Wehlen Morrison, Home Front Girl: A Diary of Love, Literature, and Growing Up in Wartime America

“Strip Polka”
― Joan Wehlen Morrison, Home Front Girl: A Diary of Love, Literature, and Growing Up in Wartime America

“Wyvern Club”
― Joan Wehlen Morrison, Home Front Girl: A Diary of Love, Literature, and Growing Up in Wartime America

“And when Iceberg heard about my measles, he laughed—laughed! Incidentally, he can go to hell!”
― Joan Wehlen Morrison, Home Front Girl: A Diary of Love, Literature, and Growing Up in Wartime America

“wissen, weiss, gewissen,”
― Joan Wehlen Morrison, Home Front Girl: A Diary of Love, Literature, and Growing Up in Wartime America

“between September 1, 1939, and December 1940 the family moved from Cornelia Avenue on the North Side to the South Side near the University of Chicago, so that Joan wouldn’t have so far to go to U-High or the University of Chicago. The exact number on Harper Avenue is not known. They later moved to 4950 South Blackstone; by 1942, they moved to 5629 South Dorchester Avenue.”
― Joan Wehlen Morrison, Home Front Girl: A Diary of Love, Literature, and Growing Up in Wartime America

“Merry Christmas”—Bing Crosby singing “Adeste fideles” on The Voice of State Street”
― Joan Wehlen Morrison, Home Front Girl: A Diary of Love, Literature, and Growing Up in Wartime America

“St. Paul’s.”
― Joan Wehlen Morrison, Home Front Girl: A Diary of Love, Literature, and Growing Up in Wartime America

“1347 West Erie Street; this “neighborhood house” helped immigrants and aided WPA workers.”
― Joan Wehlen Morrison, Home Front Girl: A Diary of Love, Literature, and Growing Up in Wartime America

“Wotan of Walhalla,”
― Joan Wehlen Morrison, Home Front Girl: A Diary of Love, Literature, and Growing Up in Wartime America

“Precaution the Cuticle of a Grand Piano. Modern art [by Salvador Dali].”
― Joan Wehlen Morrison, Home Front Girl: A Diary of Love, Literature, and Growing Up in Wartime America

“The L train passing noncommittally by so many lives, so many stories.”
― Joan Wehlen Morrison, Home Front Girl: A Diary of Love, Literature, and Growing Up in Wartime America

“The city is rather good-looking on Sunday morning from the L—(anytime, [if] you have eyes for it)—spread rather magnificently from the lake far to the west.”
― Joan Wehlen Morrison, Home Front Girl: A Diary of Love, Literature, and Growing Up in Wartime America

“821 Cornelia Avenue”
― Joan Wehlen Morrison, Home Front Girl: A Diary of Love, Literature, and Growing Up in Wartime America

“Arden Shore Camp in Lake Bluff, Illinois, a camp for poor children and those at risk for delinquency.”
― Joan Wehlen Morrison, Home Front Girl: A Diary of Love, Literature, and Growing Up in Wartime America

“naturalibus”
― Joan Wehlen Morrison, Home Front Girl: A Diary of Love, Literature, and Growing Up in Wartime America

“went under a tree near the statue of the Unknown Soldier. He looked so lonely there in the rain (the”
― Joan Wehlen Morrison, Home Front Girl: A Diary of Love, Literature, and Growing Up in Wartime America

“American Mosaic: The Immigrant Experience in the Words of Those Who Lived It (1980),”
― Joan Wehlen Morrison, Home Front Girl: A Diary of Love, Literature, and Growing Up in Wartime America

“Billings Hospital and the House of Happiness, where”
― Joan Wehlen Morrison, Home Front Girl: A Diary of Love, Literature, and Growing Up in Wartime America