{"quotes":[{"text":"I'm drawn to the 1950s for lots of reasons - everything from the fashion to the increasing sense of freedom and modernity that builds throughout the decade.","author":"Sara Sheridan","tags":["1950s","decade","era","fashion","fifties","freedom","history","modernity"],"id":17635,"author_id":"Sara+Sheridan"},{"text":"In the 1950s at least less was expected of women. Now we're supposed to build a career, build a home, be the supermum that every child deserves, the perfect wife, meet the demands of elderly parents, and still stay sane.","author":"Sara Sheridan","tags":["1950s","career","elderly-parents","feminism","home","juggling","motherhood","sanity","time"],"id":31975,"author_id":"Sara+Sheridan"},{"text":"Don't make a career out of underestimating me.' — Claire de Haven.","author":"James Ellroy","tags":["1950s","crime","fearless","femme-fatale","jazz","l-a-confidential","noir","red-scare","the-big-nowhere","underestimate"],"id":73138,"author_id":"James+Ellroy"},{"text":"Writing about the 1950s has given me tremendous respect for my mother's generation.","author":"Sara Sheridan","tags":["1950s","fifties","mother","respect","writing"],"id":192714,"author_id":"Sara+Sheridan"},{"text":"While I'm frustrated at the amount I'm expected to take on in the present, the 1950s woman was frustrated by being excluded - not being allowed to take things on at all.","author":"Sara Sheridan","tags":["1950s","exclusion","expectations-illusions","feminism","frustration","women"],"id":209721,"author_id":"Sara+Sheridan"},{"text":"You wanted to live inside the lines where the ordinariness of everything would protect you from the dragons that lay at the edge of the map ready to blow fire in your face if you strayed off course, to the edge of the known world.","author":"Anne Roiphe","tags":["1950s","anne-roiphe","memoir"],"id":226498,"author_id":"Anne+Roiphe"},{"text":"The country is like a great sponge—it finally absorbs you. Eventually you will get malaria or you will get dysentery and whatever you do, if you don't keep doing it, the jungle will grow over you. Black or white, you've got to fight it every minute of the day.","author":"Katharine Hepburn","tags":["1950s","1951","africa","congo"],"id":242764,"author_id":"Katharine+Hepburn"},{"text":"Now the city is at its loveliest. The crowds of summer and autumn have gone, the air has a new freshness, the light has that pale-gold quality unique to this time of year. There have been several weeks of this weather now, without a drop of rain.","author":"Lucy Foley","tags":["1950s","escapism","escapist","eternal-city","historical-fiction","holiday-read","inspirational","lucy-foley","rome","rome","summer-read","the-eternal-city","the-invitation","vintage"],"id":302736,"author_id":"Lucy+Foley"},{"text":" ... Family men, Claude.'Then why aren't they home with their families?'You haven't been listening to me, Claude. It takes lots of honey to raise a family these days...' No, it isn't even that, these teddy bears don't like honey as much as they think they do. They think they're supposed to like it, the way they're supposed to like women and children. They think they're supposed to act like real grizzlies, but they don't feel it. You can't blame them, they just don't have it inside them. What they have, what they love most, is their memories: how the Coach used to shout niceworkpal whenever they caught the big ball or somehow hit the little one, how Dad used to wink when they caught one of his jokes, how when they repeated them he almost died laughing, so they told them and told them - if they told one really well he might do it. They memorized all the conversations verbatim, that about the pussies and the coons, the homers and the balls, the cams and the bearings. They're still memorizing. You can see them almost anytime you're out driving, there in the slow car just ahead, the young man at the wheel, the old man talking, the young man leaning a little to the right in order to hear better, the old man pointing out the properties, the young man looking and listening earnestly, straining to catch the old man's last word, the last joke verbatim, the last bit of know-how about the deals and the properties and the honey. When he thinks he's learned all he can from the old man, he'll shove him out of the car. You watch, next time you're out driving. '...These are the cream, Claude.' These are the all-American fairies.","author":"Douglas Woolf","tags":["1950s","american-male","dad","father","fathers","male","masculinity"],"id":357914,"author_id":"Douglas+Woolf"},{"text":"He’s more a shape in a drape than a hep cat.","author":"Sara Sheridan","tags":["1950s","dialect","fifties","hepcat","humour","language","lingo"],"id":369150,"author_id":"Sara+Sheridan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":13,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}