Blythe Danner Quotes

My father's generation of Saudi men are more liberal than the men of my generation. But with women, it's the opposite.

I'm like, 'Wow, I guess a lot of people didn't have this type of upbringing'... that old world technique of, you know, nothing's given to you, you've gotta work for everything you've done... It's just different from what I'm seeing today.

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.

Each generation has a backlash against the generation before.

It took us a long time to find out that we had been lied to by our parents' generation. The moralities that were followed during our parents' generation were basically arbitrary. This caused a rift between the two generations, which was brought on by the beatniks.

People all over the world are today questioning matters that only a few generations ago were generally seen as "just the way things are.”

I would say the hardest part in the Latino world is approval from your parents. It's such an intense thing.

In my parents' generation, rebellion was pop culture. It's not anymore.

In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.

My generation will actually be the first generation that is tamer than the one that came before it, and it will probably be poorer; less fun and less money.

Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.

Personally, my interest in social history ends around 1959, by which time I was an adolescent. I've always attributed this to my particular sensibilities. I like formality and elegance, and I'm fundamentally conservative.

There was a time when someone would get on a plane and request to move their seat just because the person sitting next to them was of a different ethnicity or religion or nationality. But I don't think my generation wants that. That's how it used to be.

Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

What used to be considered conservative values... are increasingly becoming more mainstream values.

The patriarchy is alive and well in Egypt and the wider Arab world. Just because we got rid of the father of the nation in Egypt or Tunisia, Mubarak or Ben Ali, and in a number of other countries, does not mean that the father of the family does not still hold sway.

Though my grandmother had picked up modern ideas in America, she still had some conflicting 19th-century Irish notions. She believed that daughters, educated though they may be, should continue to live at home until they were married.

Incidentally, one of the most worrying problems in the impact of Western modernity on traditional culture is that it quite rapidly communicates its own indifference or anxiety or even hostility about age and ageing.

Every generation challenges the one that goes before.

Books are for adults; revolution is for the young.

My dad is this typical orthodox, narrow-minded Punjabi man in front of whom you can't even utter the word called 'boyfriend.'

It's like when something good is happening with young people, then the old, grey people in power will be like: 'No! It cannot be like this!'

People are always asking me about the '60s, like I should be some sort of expert. It's like being in the middle of a hurricane, you can't describe it till it's over. Creativity was allowed to blossom, we were all allowed this marvelous freedom, there was money to do things.

One of my goals in life is to watch political correctness shrivel up and die (as it should be for any true conservative).

We are becoming a society where traditional values and free speech are being diminished and the religious are viewed as having a backward mentality.