Pouring Oil on Troubled Lips

"I am 17 years of age and I have never been out with boys other than by brother and cousins, the trouble with me is that I am too shy. I have been asked out by a number of boys, but I always make some excuse because I am told that when a boy takes a girl out he expects her to kiss him goodnight. I would rather drink a bottle of castor oil than let a boy kiss me goodnight."

—Letter to "Truth," 20/5/58.