Writing about the 1950s has given me tremendous respect for my mother's generation.

Currents of cigarette fumes wafted through what passed for air. Attractive young women in bright-hued gowns glided throu — Clark Zlotchew, Once Upon a Decade: Tales of the Fifties

While I'm frustrated at the amount I'm expected to take on in the present, the 1950s woman was frustrated by being exclu — Sara Sheridan

In the 1950s at least less was expected of women. Now we're supposed to build a career, build a home, be the supermum th — Sara Sheridan

He’s more a shape in a drape than a hep cat — Sara Sheridan, London Calling

Don't make a career out of underestimating me." — Claire de Haven — James Ellroy, The Big Nowhere

You wanted to live inside the lines where the ordinariness of everything would protect you from the dragons that lay at — Anne Roiphe, Art and Madness: A Memoir of Lust Without Reason

The fifties is a decade when every year is markedly different from the one before and after. That doesn't happen every d — Sara Sheridan

Now the city is at its loveliest. The crowds of summer and autumn have gone, the air has a new freshness, the light has — Lucy Foley, The Invitation

That spring was the start of everything, for me. Before then, I might have been half-asleep, drifting through life. — Lucy Foley, The Invitation

People believe what they want to believe. Even if it isn’t true. — Julian Houston, New Boy

$Television hols up a mirror to the true nature of family life today. For the first time people see themselves reflected and refracted within its curved glass screen: helping them to define who the are — a rescheduling of life in the suburban living room has taken place.$

Writing about the 1950s has given me tremendous respect for my mother's generation.

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