#fifties

There are lesbians, God knows... if you came up through lesbian circles in the forties and fifties in New York... who were not feminist and would not call themselves feminists. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#came #circles #feminist #feminists #fifties

In housing in the fifties in Britain and the sixties, we pulled down the terraces - destroyed whole communities and replaced them with tower blocks and we built walkways that became rat-runs for muggers. That was the fashionable opinion. But it was wrong. ↗

— John Major

#blocks #britain #built #communities #destroyed

In New York in the Forties or Fifties, everybody's in a suit, an overcoat and a hat. ↗

— John Malkovich

#fifties #forties #hat #new #new york

You get into your late fifties, people start falling like flies all around you. I don't take life for granted any more. I'm really glad to be here. ↗

— Tom Petty

#around #falling #fifties #flies #get

Growing up in the fifties and sixties, I can only remember knowing one child, ever, whose parents got a divorce, and hardly any whose mother 'worked' at anything besides raising her children. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#anything #besides #child #children #divorce

I love oldies just kind of sweet, slinky, Fifties music. The slow stuff. And Billie Holiday. ↗

— Nastassja Kinski

#billie holiday #fifties #holiday #i #i love

One of the things I'm most proud of about my country is the fact that we did lick McCarthyism back in the fifties. ↗

— Pete Seeger

#back #country #did #fact #fifties

Some of my ancestors were religious dissenters who came to America over three hundred years ago. Others were abolitionists in New England in the eighteen forties and fifties. ↗

— Pete Seeger

#ago #america #ancestors #came #dissenters

Here in L.A. the standard of beauty is kind of ridiculous. I want to be doing this when I'm in my fifties and sixties and this isn't what I'm going to look like. ↗

— Rose Byrne

#doing #fifties #going #here #i

I felt trapped and fabricated in the fifties living up to other people's expectations. ↗

— Rosemary Clooney

#fabricated #felt #fifties #i #living