Hazel grew up - did four years in grammar school, four years in reform school, and didn't learn a thing in either place. Reform schools are supposed to teach viciousness and criminality but Hazel didn't pay enough attention.

“Act out being alive, like a play. And after a while, a long while, it will be t…”

“There would come a time in our poverty when we needed a party.”

“It was quite normal in that day for a man to use up three or four wives in a no…”

“After the bare requisites to living and reproducing, man wants most to leave so…”