Judith Mackrell > Quotes

“Scott had learned much about girls when he was courting Zelda: the paradoxical mix of dependency and disdain she felt for her own beauty, the small tragedies and triumphs of her teenage life. In transferring these nuances to Rosalind, he became one of the first writers in post-war America to evoke a complex, modern heroine.”
― Judith Mackrell, Flappers: Six Women of a Dangerous Generation

“As a writer, his vision was maturing. He could see that Gatsby’s desperate wish to reclaim his perfect love with Daisy was part of the bright, precarious dream of his own generation, a dream that confused the ownership of beautiful things with happiness and freedom.* Scott”
― Judith Mackrell, Flappers: Six Women of a Dangerous Generation

“She did as she pleased, regarding life as 'an inexhaustible counter', from which she seemed to be continually picking out presents for herself.”
― Judith Mackrell, Flappers: Six Women of a Dangerous Generation

“Willing to run the risks of their independence as well as enjoy its pleasures, there were good reasons for them to be perceived as women of a dangerous generation.”
― Judith Mackrell, Flappers: Six Women of a Dangerous Generation

“And when the mood took her to fall for the handsome young lawyer Will Bankhead, she happily threw over the man to whom she was already engaged.”
― Judith Mackrell, Flappers: Six Women of a Dangerous Generation

“You could make people love you, she discovered, by keeping them entertained.”
― Judith Mackrell, Flappers: Six Women of a Dangerous Generation

“Victor Polacheck during her final weeks in Geneva”
― Judith Mackrell, The Correspondents: Six Women Writers on the Front Lines of World War II

“Right away I fell in love with him because he was so good looking. And because he was alone with ten women around him”
― Judith Mackrell, Flappers: Six Women of a Dangerous Generation