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“Girls had changed. They had liberated themselves from their corsets only to throw themselves at the tyranny of the "diet plan." They were all coltish legs, bound chests and smooth scalps. They no longer whispered behind their hands and hid behind shy glances. They joked and drank, smoked and swore with the boys. Waistlines had slipped, fabrics were thin and morals were thinner.”

Girls Change Life Roaring Twenties Flappers

Book:The House at Riverton

Source: The House at Riverton

“Cuando acabó la canción, Summer se levantó y saludó con una reverencia. Se oyeron algunos aplausos aislados y después todos volvieron a sus conversaciones. El camarero se acercó restregándose las manos con el trapo. —¿Ya has tenido bastante? Summer asintió. —Siempre quise ser una flapper —dijo en tono trágico. El camarero sonrió y de detrás de la barra sacó un collar largo de perlas y se lo ofreció. —Diplomada en flapper. Ahora, por favor, deja que cure mi resaca sin tanto ruido. Summer levantó el vaso de ginebra en alto a modo de saludo y le tendió la mano.”

Jazz Magia Horizonte Flappers

Book:Ópalo y Estramonio: La magia de las piedras en una fantasía urbana de #Horizonte (Susurros de Piedra nº 2)

Source: Ópalo y Estramonio: La magia de las piedras en una fantasía urbana de #Horizonte (Susurros de Piedra nº 2)

“Flappers sounds like where waitresses go after they're too old to work at Hooters.”

Sound Waitress Flappers

Author:Ray Romano

“What's really interesting is when you get a brand-new wave that has no connection to anything else. It always reflects society. The flappers would cut the dresses and make them looser, they smoked, their hair was short. It was a rebellion against the corset and the Edwardian era.”

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Author:Annie Lennox

“I'm drawn to intergenerational tension, and it must have been strong in the 1920s: I wondered how Louise's [Brooks] generation of flappers appeared to the women who came of age at the beginning of the century - wearing corsets, long skirts, and high collars.”

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Author:Laura Moriarty

“[Film Loulou] is about Loulou, a ghost from the 1920s. She was a flapper and she was a dancer, had kind of a free lifestyle, then she ended up marrying a man who wanted to kind of keep her in the house and control her environment a little bit more and so she committed suicide.”

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Author:Boti Bliss

“So one time when I was working in this motel one of the toilets leaked and I had to replace the flapper ball. Here's what it said on the package; I kept it till I knew it by heart: 'Please Note. Parts are included for all installations, but no installation requires all of the parts.' That's kind of my philosophy about men. I don't think there's an installation out there that could use all my parts.”

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Author:Barbara Kingsolver

“I won’t kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can’t get rid of habits.”

I Can Might Habit Kissing Flappers

Book:Flappers and Philosophers

Source: Flappers and Philosophers

“Hot off the presses, today’s headlines: The love of your life does not approve of my wanton flapper ways,” Evie said in a voice of affected mystery. “Really, Mabesie. You might want to reconsider—he is a bit of a killjoy.”

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Author:Libba Bray

“The Flapper awoke from her lethargy of sub-deb-ism, bobbed her hair, put on her choicest pair of earrings and a great deal of audacity and rouge and went into the battle. She flirted because it was fun to flirt and wore a one-piece bathing suit because she had a good figure she was conscious that the things she did were the things she had always wanted to do. Mothers disapproved of their sons taking the Flapper to dances, to teas, to swim and most of all to heart.”

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Author:Zelda Fitzgerald

“I connected very much with all the work of Joan Crawford because she started as a flapper. She used to dance and sing and she was very cute. She had something that was so different from what she is at the end of her life and she started in the silent movies and then went into the talkies.”

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Author:Berenice Bejo

“Joan Crawford is doubtless the best example of the flapper, the girl you see in smart night clubs, gowned to the apex of sophistication, toying iced glasses with a remote, faintly bitter expression, dancing deliciously, laughing a great deal, with wide, hurt eyes. Young things with a talent for living.”

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Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald