1980s Quote by Mary Cheney

I like to joke about being gay because it's something teenagers would never joke about.

— Bo Burnham

Gay teenagers are four times as likely to attempt suicide as straight ones. I wish they knew that there's nothing wrong with them; that…

— Jodi Picoult

I'm one of those gay people who's constantly reminded of how fortunate I am to live now and not to be Ennis and Jack…

— Dan Savage

Back in the 1980s, state-of-the-nation fictions were all set in Manhattan. Now, they're all in Trump country. Early in 'S-Town,' we're introduced to an…

— David Hepworth

Eventually, our kind of music, whether it's us or Motley or Poison of whoever, will define the 1980s. That's something to be proud of.

— Jani Lane

The 1980s really ended for me in 1992 with the film Kika.

— Pedro Almodovar

In the 1980s and the 1990s, when HIV hit its peak, the gay community was at the forefront of the fight against the silent…

— Elizabeth Flock

The 1980s was the era of the blonde cheerleader.

— Winona Ryder

The 1980s were all about synths for me, and it never went away after that.

— John Grant

Nuclear power will be the Vietnam issue of the 1980s.

— Jerry Brown

“As he defended the book one evening in the early 1980s at the Carnegie Endowment in New York, I knew that some of what…

— Christopher Hitchens

I was a safari guide in the 1980s in Kenya.

— Don Winslow

“Dilettantes,’ Art3mis said. ‘It’s their own fault for not knowing all the Schoolhouse Rock! lyrics by heart.”

— Ernest Cline

“Everything worth knowing about the 1980s I learned from obsessively reading Bloom County collections when I was nine and Derek Jarman's diaries when I…

— Ruadhán J. McElroy

There was a time in the 1980s when I worked in 22 films a year.

— Radha Ravi