#my generation

In my generation, except for a few people who'd gone into banking or nursing or something like that, middle-class women didn't have careers. You were to marry and have children and be a nice mother. You didn't go out and do anything. I found that I got restless. ↗

— Julia Child

#banking #careers #children #except #few

I was the Marlon Brando of my generation. ↗

— Bette Davis

#generation #i #marlon #marlon brando #my generation

In the 21st century, I think it's fair to say, homosexuality is more accepted in Britain and it's wonderful that my generation has been able to grow up with that. ↗

— Dan Stevens

#able #accepted #been #britain #century

Really, the values under which my generation was raised in the '50s were immigrant values even though we weren't immigrants. The greatest thing you could be was a college-educated Negro. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#even #generation #greatest #greatest thing #immigrant

I don't want to live in a bubble, in my craft or in the world...I can't, I would be cheating myself out of my generation and the world we live in. ↗

— Diane Lane

#cheating #craft #generation #i #live

My generation have had it good, and I am really troubled by what we have done with it. ↗

— Jeremy Paxton

#done #generation #good #had #i

My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word. ↗

— Erica Jong

#adored #attacked #become #book #daughters

And my generation in Brazil was influenced by Cinema Novo. So we're echoing what's been done way in the past. ↗

— Walter Salles

#brazil #cinema #done #echoing #generation

I, like many members of my generation, was concerned with segregation and the repeated violation of civil rights. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

#civil rights #concerned #generation #i #like

War is not the quintessential emergency in which man has to prove himself, as my generation learned at its school desks in the days of the Kaiser; rather, peace is the emergency in which we all have to prove ourselves. ↗

— Gustav Heinemann

#desks #emergency #generation #himself #learned