Adolescence Quote by Edmund White

I grew up in the Deep South, where sexism, racism, and homophobia were and still are alive and well. I have early, early memories…

— Pauley Perrette

When I was growing up - say in the fifties - the thirties to me didn't even exist. I couldn't even imagine them in…

— Bob Dylan

There's that thing about the '80s, the '40s and the '60s, and the '30s, the '50s and the '70s. Something about those odd decades…

— Paul Kantner

In those years of the Fifties, in London and New York, I lived, without knowing it, in a time when the profoundest changes were…

— Eavan Boland

When I was a kid, for me, the '60s seemed so far away. But I was actually born in the late '60s.

— Lisa Loeb

To begin with, I turn back time. I reverse it to that quaint period, the thirties, when the huge middle class of America was…

— Tennessee Williams

I think back to when I was growing up in Fort Worth, Texas, in the 1950s, during the [John] McCarthy era, with two parents…

— Frances Moore Lappé

Growing up in the fifties, having to wear a dog tag, having to take shelter in a bomb shelter. That turned me toward the…

— Anne Waldman

When I was a teenager in Milwaukee in the 1980s, life was pretty boring, and I found myself riveted by the sheer melodrama of…

— Rick Perlstein

I was born in the '50s - 1951. So I grew up during that part of the '50s when everything was supposed to be…

— Joe R. Lansdale

I felt quite frankly having been raised during the depression and looking back at the roaring twenties, the jazz age, which was a very…

— Hugh Hefner

I grew up in the American South and came of age in the 1960s, an incredibly turbulent time. It was as if the seams…

— Sue Monk Kidd