#boomer

Like the 'little emperors' of one-child China, too many Boomers were taught early that the world was made (or saved) for their comfort and enjoyment. They behaved accordingly, with a self-indulgence that was wholly rational, given their situation. ↗

— Eric Liu

#behaved #boomers #china #comfort #early

Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#answered prayers #become #big #boomerang #broad

If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang. ↗

— Charley Reese

#envy #had #malice #shape #tangible

Today there are about 40 million retirees receiving benefits; by the time all the baby boomers have retired, there will be more than 72 million retirees drawing Social Security benefits. ↗

— Tony Snow

#baby #baby boomers #benefits #boomers #by the time

And you know, the baby boomers are getting older, and those off the rack clothes are just not fitting right any longer, and so, tailor-made suits are coming back into fashion. ↗

— Amy Irving

#any #baby #baby boomers #back #boomers

Do you think we enjoy hearing about your brand-new million-dollar home when we can barely afford to eat Kraft Dinner sandwiches in our own grimy little shoe boxes and we're pushing thirty? A home you won in a genetic lottery, I might add, sheerly by dint of your having been born at the right time in history? You'd last about ten minutes if you were my age these days. ↗

— Douglas Coupland

#generation-x #generational-divide #age

I write so that my handful of pebbles, cast daily into still waters, will produce a ripple. ↗

— Anne Schroeder

#inspirational #memoir #women-s #inspirational

Her life, she knew, was becoming simplified into an unbreakable chain of habits, a series of orderly actions at regular hours. Vaguely, she thought of herself as a happy woman; yet she was aware that this monotony of contentment had no relation to what she had called happiness in her youth. It was better perhaps; it was certainly as good; but it measured all the difference between youth and maturity. ↗

— Ellen Glasgow

#life

After we deal and heal...NOT A A SHRED OF EVIDENCE EXISTS THAT LIFE IS SERIOUS .....Jan Marshall ↗

— Jan Marshall

#healing #humor #satire #seniors #survival

There were all us baby boomers who had a grammar school education, started to learn, then went on the pill, the whole thing, and so there are today a lot more women writers, editors, producers, and so a lot more women's stories. God, the BBC's practically run by women. ↗

— Julie Walters

#baby boomers #bbc #boomers #editors #education