“Vita had the same crooked smile I had, and that many of the women in my family had, what we called our Mona Lisa smile, a hesitant smirk that didn’t give much away. You didn’t get the full-on smile until… — Helene Stapinski Copy Share Image
“I needed a wife, goddamnit, someone to take care of me while I took care of business. But I was the wife. And mother.… — Helene Stapinski Copy Share Image
“Vita had the same crooked smile I had, and that many of the women in my family had, what we called our Mona Lisa… — Helene Stapinski Copy Share Image
“Thanks in good part to that 1911 congressional report and to Lombroso, the United States passed the Immigration Act of 1924, more or less… — Helene Stapinski Copy Share Image
“Life there had been grim, but he had a maid, a woman who took care of him and cooked for him and even bathed… — Helene Stapinski Copy Share Image
