Sixties Quotes

156 quotes by 136 authors

She had once said that she believed the women's liberation movement of the sixties and seventies was actually a ploy by men to get women… — J. Courtney Sullivan
The people who invented the twenty-first century were pot-smoking, sandal-wearing hippies from the West Coast like Steve, because they saw differently,â€ he said. "The hierarchical… — Walter Isaacson
Could it be? Samantha Kingston? Home? On a Friday?â€ I roll my eyes. â€œI donâ€™t know. Did you do a lot of acid in the… — Lauren Oliver
The trauma of the Sixties persuaded me that my generation's egalitarianism was a sentimental error. I now see the hierarchical as both beautiful and necessary.… — Camille Paglia
I think of the Sixties as being every man for himself. — Penelope Tree
But the whole point of the Sixties was that you had to take people as they were. If you came in with us you left… — Michael Caine
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… — Duane Michals
I grew up in central Florida in the nineteen-sixties, barefoot half the time and running around the orange groves where my father worked. I remember… — Anne Hull
In the late Fifties and early Sixties, opposition to state terror and aggression and torture and so on was zero. That was a horrible time:… — Noam Chomsky
My mother handed down all these amazing scarves from the sixties and seventies, and I have a hundred of them. — Kelly Wearstler
When I think of my childhood, I see my mother, the complete sixties parent, decked in purple frappe silk caftans, the acidic smell of newly… — Hamish Bowles
Basically, my parents messed up because it was the Sixties, and they both had affairs, but they had a great love for each other. I… — Saffron Aldridge
The Sixties was all about style and a certain look. But what was interesting about 1963 was that it was pre-Beatles, so the clothes of… — Luke Evans
Originally, I was against gay marriage because I was opposed to all marriage, being an old-fashioned gay bohemian. The straight people I knew in the… — Edmund White
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… — Edmund White
The Stones were more dangerous than other bands of the Sixties. It looked like they had more fun than the Beatles - like they stayed… — Alex Lifeson
In the Sixties, you needed talent to make it. — Cilla Black
England was always very special. It was so important because the reason Benny and I started writing was the Beatles. During the Sixties, England was… — Bjorn Ulvaeus
The Fifties and Sixties were years of unreal optimism about weather forecasting. Newspapers and magazines were filled with hope for weather science, not just for… — James Gleick
In Don Mills in the Sixties, nothing comes close to the humiliation of losing an argument. In our weird little creative circle, no one cares… — Dan Hill

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