Kate and Mary
"Well," Kate began, pausing for a moment to lift her glass to her lips for another taste of wine, "It gets better further on in the twentieth century. And the twenty-first century isn't bad either."
Of course, she had years where her life had been miserable and she had been desperately unhappy, but on the whole, the world was a better place than it had been in the early years of the 1900s. More freedom, more opportunity, just more in general.