Sixties

Famous quotes containing the word sixties:

“I want a revamped feminism. Putting the vamp back means the lady must be a tramp. My generation of the Sixties rebels wanted to smash the bourgeois codes that had become authoritarian totems of the Fifties.... Thirty years later, we’re still stuck with the [”nice” girl].”
—Camille Paglia (b. 1947)

“The sixties generation in the nineties: Falstaff crying, “They hate us youth.””
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn’t the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.”
—John Lennon (1940–1980)