Affected Quote by Nick Nolte

Almost everything about American society is affected by World War II: our feelings about race; our feelings about gender and the empowerment of women,…

— Rick Atkinson

No one ever mentioned it, but thousands of men welcomed World War II as a way to escape their humdrum lives rather than a…

— Art Buchwald

Growing up during World War II certainly affected my whole view of life, but I hardly know how, it goes so deep. What's hard…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Between the postwar fifties - domesticity, people happy to be alive after the Second World War, wanting to build a home, make a family,…

— Sally Potter

For women, World War II had offered an opportunity, and often the necessity, to get out of the house to work.

— Cathleen Schine

The WWII generation shares so many common values: duty, honor, country, personal responsibility and the marriage vow " For better or for worse--it was…

— Tom Brokaw

I've always been interested in war, but especially its effects on society, which means bringing in the voices of women, which aren't heard as…

— Margaret MacMillan

I hope the World War II generation doesn't lose that quality that made them so appealing: their modesty, and the way they are always…

— Tom Brokaw

“Ironically, the memory of the women heroes of World War I was largely eclipsed by the very women they had inspired. The more blatant…

— Kathryn J. Atwood

War had the effect of encouraging people to try to stay alive. Poverty, too. Survival was simply too hard-won to be given up lightly.

— Aminatta Forna

I suppose that I just grew up knowing, in a very vivid way, that if it hadn't been for the men who fought in…

— David Jason

I was going to be a great woman novelist. Then the war came along and I think it's hard for young people today, don't…

— Julia Child