By: Lynn Peril

“This girl’s a scientist?”

By: Lynn Peril

“Don’t ask obvious, endless questions.”

By: Lynn Peril

A bad case of Domestic Hands.

By: Lynn Peril

The power struggle over hair also played out in homes across the nation.

By: Lynn Peril

“This is the life, wonderful time. Pep, jazz, gin.”

By: Lynn Peril

Women who sat on the sidelines cheering didn’t challenge the authority of men.

By: Lynn Peril

“If you don’t know about surfing or don’t like it, you’re too old to go.”

By: Lynn Peril

“The so-called boyish type is an insane monstrosity to all aesthetic conventions of beauty.”

By: Lynn Peril

The line between gentleman and sissy was a fine one to walk.

By: Lynn Peril

Even watching as a preteen, I didn’t understand those twin beds.

By: Lynn Peril

Suffering was allegedly woman’s lot in life… Midol gave women permission not to suffer.

By: Lynn Peril

“Dogs of Society Women Are Cared for as Babies Should Be”

By: Lynn Peril

“A lady is always a lady, cocktail or no cocktail.”

By: Lynn Peril

“She is peevish, complaining, envious, malignant, covetous, wholly unsympathetic.”

By: Lynn Peril

“She and I were not particularly close, but we share the sin of vanity.”