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You know, women have a history of just being - we've been told all our lives not to say - in the fifties you couldn't say birth or even be pregnant hardly on television - and then gradually things have changed.

~Cybill Shepherd

Topics: All Our Lives Been Being Birth Changed Even Fifties Gradually Hardly History Just Know Lives Our Our Lives Pregnant Say Television Then Things Women You

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Generally, older people in their fifties, sixties, and seventies are running most countries and are CEOs of corporations. Which isn't to say there aren't entrepreneurs, but if the young were better in every respect, there'd be no reason for the old. Our life span reflects our particular life strategy.

~Cynthia Kenyon

Topics: Better Ceos Corporations Countries Entrepreneurs Every Fifties Generally Life Life Span Most No Reason Old Older Older People Our Particular People Reason Reflects Respect Running Say Seventies Sixties Span Strategy Were Which Young

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This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants.

~David Foster Wallace

Topics: About Between Contemporary Descendants Differences Early Fifties Might One Way Postmodern Sixties Start Talking Way Writers

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In the fifties, no one wore beards. In Eisenhower's day, as in the time of the Founding Fathers, all chins were smooth, while during the Civil War, beards were as common as sepsis.

~Donald Hall

Topics: Civil Civil War Common Day Eisenhower Fathers Fifties Founding Founding Fathers Smooth Time War Were While Wore

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People of my generation who became photographers in the late fifties, early sixties, there were no rewards in photography. There were no museum shows. Maybe MOMA would show something, or Chicago. There were no galleries. Nobody bought photographs.

~Duane Michals

Topics: Became Bought Chicago Early Fifties Galleries Generation Late Maybe Museum My Generation Nobody People Photographers Photographs Photography Rewards Show Shows Sixties Something Were Who Would

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My dad was kind of a pool shark and had a Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin thing going on. I've always been fascinated by the fifties because of him. There was a hip, cool, anything-goes atmosphere back then, but looking good was still a priority.

~Dylan Mcdermott

Topics: Always Atmosphere Back Because Been Cool Dad Dean Dean Martin Fascinated Fifties Frank Frank Sinatra Going Good Had Him Hip Kind Looking Looking Good Martin Pool Priority Shark Sinatra Still Then Thing

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In those years of the Fifties, in London and New York, I lived, without knowing it, in a time when the profoundest changes were happening: when a radical alteration was getting ready to happen in the way a society saw young girls. And, as a consequence, in the way they saw themselves.

~Eavan Boland

Topics: Alteration Changes Consequence Fifties Getting Girl Happen Happening Knowing Lived London New New York Radical Ready Saw Society Themselves Those Time Way Were Without Years York Young Young Girls

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I think The Doors are one of the classic groups, and I think we're all tempted to feel like the time in which we grew up was somehow special, but I really do believe that there were two golden eras in music: The Forties and Fifties of big band, jazz and swing, and the Sixties and Seventies of rock. To me, they're really unparalleled.

~Edgar Winter

Topics: Band Believe Big Big Band Classic Doors Eras Feel Fifties Forties Golden Grew Groups Jazz Like Me Music Really Rock Seventies Sixties Somehow Special Swing Tempted The Doors Think Time Two Unparalleled Up Were Which I Think

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I lived through the Fifties in the Midwest when everything that was happening - the repression of homosexuality, for instance, the demonization of the Left, the giggly, soporific ordinariness of adolescence, the stone-deafness to the social injustice all around us - seemed not only unobjectionable but also nonexistent.

~Edmund White

Topics: Adolescence Also Around Everything Fifties Happening Homosexuality Injustice Instance Left Lived Midwest Only Repression Seemed Social Social Injustice Through Us

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The great triumph of the Sixties was to dramatize just how arbitrary and constructed the seeming normality of the Fifties had been. We rose up from our maple-wood twin beds and fell onto the great squishy, heated water bed of the Sixties.

~Edmund White

Topics: Arbitrary Bed Beds Been Constructed Fell Fifties Great Had Heated How Just Normality Onto Our Rose Seeming Sixties Triumph Twin Up Water

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