Quotes Tagged With :1950s

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

When they reached their ship, Ed gazed out at the bay. It was black. The sky was black, but the bay was....

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

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

The country is like a great sponge—it finally absorbs you. Eventually you will get malaria or you will....

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

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

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

After all, she knows how painful it can be not to follow your heart and she knows about the obstacles....

That spring was the start of everything, for me. Before then, I might have been half-asleep, drifting....