#sixties

There was a period which I refer to as the 'Golden Age of Jazz,' which sort of encompasses the middle Thirties through the Sixties, we had a lot of great innovators, all creating things which will last the world for a long, long time. ↗

— Sonny Rollins

#creating #encompasses #golden #golden age #great

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 think the sixties must have been quite a lot of fun. ↗

— Tama Janowitz

#fun #i #i think #lot #must

The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#american foreign policy #applying #caused #conditions #foreign

When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking. ↗

— Gail Sheehy

#cooking #go #men #pieces #reach

The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to make life easier for men, in fact. ↗

— Julie Burchill

#boiled #contraception #down #easier #easy

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

In the sixties, everyone you knew became famous. My flatmate was Terence Stamp. My barber was Vidal Sassoon. David Hockney did the menu in a restaurant I went to. I didn't know anyone unknown who didn't become famous. ↗

— Michael Caine

#barber #became #become #david #did

On one level the sixties revolt was an impressive illustration of Lenin's remark that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him with. ↗

— Ellen Willis

#hang #him #illustration #impressive #lenin

During the Sixties, the Americans thought I was the greatest thing in the history of cinema. ↗

— Michael Winner

#during #greatest #greatest thing #history #i