Quotes Tagged With :1950s

Fiction has been maligned for centuries as being "false," "untrue," yet good fiction provides more truth....

Don't make a career out of underestimating me." — Claire de Haven

While I'm frustrated at the amount I'm expected to take on in the present, the 1950s woman was frustrated....

The fifties is a decade when every year is markedly different from the one before and after. That doesn't....

He’s more a shape in a drape than a hep cat

Now the city is at its loveliest. The crowds of summer and autumn have gone, the air has a new freshness,....

People believe what they want to believe. Even if it isn’t true.

... family men, Claude.""Then why aren't they home with their families?""You haven't been listening....

Writing about the 1950s has given me tremendous respect for my mother's generation.

In the 1950s at least less was expected of women. Now we're supposed to build a career, build a home,....