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  • Sylvan 2022-04-23 07:03:26

    doesn't it feel so liberating when you realize your life never turns out to be what you expect it to be?

  • Garret 2022-01-07 15:53:32

    Not only about women in the 20th century, but also about life in the 20th century, a variety of cultural symbols rushed to the face. Thanks to me for catching up with the end of that era. Benin allowed me to see my straight future life trajectory, light a cigarette, and look at the generation gap like the sea...

20th Century Women quotes

  • Jamie: My mom was born in 1924. When she was my age people drove in sad cars to sad houses with old phones, no money, or food, or televisions... but people were real. When she was sixteen, the war broke out and she had to leave school. Her dream was to be a pilot in the Air Force. She actually went to flight school. But the war ended before she was done. She became the first woman to work in the Continental Can Company drafting room. Then she met my dad... and I came. Then they got divorced. But people from her time never admit anything went wrong.

  • Dorothea: My son was born in 1964. He grew up with a meaningless war, with protests, with Nixon, with nice cars and nice houses, computers, drugs, boredom. I know him less every day.