Judy Blume Quotes

In retrospect, we could see that the 1950s had been a reactionary period in America of Eisenhower blandness, of virulent anticommunism, of the 'Feminine Mystique.'

Some people think of the '50s as a time of innocence, but they are misremembering it or reinventing it: if you look at the papers of the time, they are filled with dread and anxiety.

I was born in 1953, so that's the Eisenhower administration.

The '50s and the '70s are sort of similar in that they're both times of major paranoia in America.

To some, the '50s were a decade marked by the banal, the predictable.

America before the 1960s was a pretty innocent place. We were the Lone Ranger galloping off to the rescue of the needy and the oppressed of the world, and we could get things done.

When I was a kid in the '50s, during the Eisenhower years, everything seemed to be working fine. I don't recall as a teenager ever worrying about the state of the future world.

The nineteen fifties was a time of tumultuous change.

These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.

I feel that we are currently living in a world that is similar to late '50s, early '60s kind of world.

I am a product of the 1950s.

People who, like me, grew up in the 1950s and 1960s after World War II, grew up with cars.

The '50s sucked for a lot of people on Earth.

McCarthyism is Americanism with its sleeves rolled.

Joe McCarthy and his Senate hearings were like witch-hunts.

No one took H.U.A.C. [House Un-American Activities Committee] seriously until it was too late.

The most alarming spectacle today is not the spectacle of the atomic bomb in an unfederated world, it is the spectacle of the Americans beginning to accept the device of loyalty oaths and witch hunts, beginning to call anybody they don't like a Communist.

For Americans of the Greatest Generation that fought World War II and of the Silent Generation that came of age in the 1950s, the great moral and ideological cause was the Cold War. It gave purpose and clarity to our politics and foreign policy, and our lives.

I think I would have done very well as a writer in the Forties. I think the last time America was a great country was then or not long after. It was before Vietnam, before Watergate.

The Hollywood of Frank Capra's era, when Reagan became a minor star, sold the world an image of American pith and patriotism in many ways as defining as the moon landing or the A-bomb.

If communism in Hollywood is now mythical, it is only because this Committee conducted three investigations to bring it about. The industry itself did certainly not accomplish this.

Nobody from the CIA is going to account for their loyalty to [Senator Joseph] McCarthy.

President Eisenhower is a communist dupe!

In the McCarthy era, people were losing their jobs--there was this blanket feeling that no one should not say anything about anything, McCarthy and his people were just sitting around calling meetings, calling up people before them, and ruining their lives.

Hoover had us [FBI agents and officials] prepare material for McCarthy regularly. We kept furnishing it to him while Hoover publicly denied that we were helping him.