“I hate dainty minds,' answered Marjorie. 'But a girl has to be dainty in person. If she looks like a million dollars she can talk about Russia, ping-pong, or the League of Nations and get away with it.”

—  F. Scott Fitzgerald, book Flappers and Philosophers

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American novelist and screenwriter 1896–1940

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