The feminist spirit still lives! It shows most boldly among younger women from the millennial generation.
Gail Sheehy
WomenGenerationSpiritStillMost
The British playwright Nina Raine is one of her generation's most promising talents.
John Lahr
GenerationTalentsHerBritishMost
Protecting our Great Lakes and conserving this resource for the next generation is critical both for surrounding communities and our planet as a whole.
Brad Schneider
GreatGenerationNextPlanetWhole
I experienced Nazism as a child. Like many of my generation, I was motivated by the desire to prevent another war at any price.
Helmut Kohl
WarChildGenerationPriceDesire
The number of people my age, younger now, a whole generation younger, who are fiercely bright, over-educated, under-employed and who are politicised and purposeless really upsets me. It's soul-destroying.
Benedict Cumberbatch
AgePeopleMeGenerationNowBright
Each generation of adolescents has at least two historical events that color its responses to whatever happens next.
Mary Doria Russell
ColorGenerationEventsTwoWhatever
There's a generation now that didn't grow up in nature. Some of these adults are parents and they know that nature is good for their kids but they don't know where to start.
Richard Louv
NatureGoodParentsStartGeneration
There is a whole generation of romance readers and writers who suffer from what I like to think of as 'Thorn Birds' Fever.
Sarah MacLean
BirdsThinkGenerationRomanceFever
I frequently am contacted by people who want to thank me for 'The Brady Bunch.' Whether they grew up during the show's original television run or are brand-new fans of the present generation, they tell me how important 'The Brady Bunch' has been in their lives.
Florence Henderson
PeopleMePresentGenerationRun
When punk came along, I found my generation's music. I grew up listening to the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd, 'cause that was what got played in the house. But when I first saw the Stranglers, I thought, 'This is it.'
Robert Smith
MusicListeningPinkGenerationPunk
The point to have a child is to introduce them to this planet that is in some ways dying and hopefully, this new generation, these new untainted brains, will be the people to fix some of these things that this generation can't.
Brie Larson
ChildPeopleGenerationNewWill
We all know far too many stories where the third generation just destroys everything that the first two have built up, and I certainly hope my family are different because I've worked too hard and my father has worked too hard for it to be given away.
Gina Rinehart
FamilyFatherHopeGenerationKnow
Most of my mentors in my early career were men; I'm happy to see today the partnership between the newer generation coming through and more senior women leaders helping others advance their careers.
Belinda Johnson
WomenTodayMenHappyGeneration
The first arrival of earthly life on another celestial body ranks as an epochal event not only for our generation, but in the history of our planet. Neil Armstrong was at the cusp of the Apollo programme. This was a collective technological effort of epic scale, but his is the one name sure to be remembered centuries hence.
Martin Rees
LifeHistoryEffortNameGeneration
Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky
WordsFreeLanguageGenerationLaws
There's a whole new generation who know about tap dancing thanks to 'Happy Feet.'
Savion Glover
HappyFeetGenerationNewKnowWho
To people of my generation, the picture show was really another dimension - sensual, whimsical. No uniforms or collective rites, but a place where little boys like me could laugh and feel free.
Federico Fellini
PeopleMeFreeGenerationLaugh
I grew up in kind of the last generation of Canadians who thought things that were happening in Britain were more important, almost, than what was happening in Canada. And my mother was fervently of that opinion.
Robert MacNeil
MotherOpinionThoughtGenerationUp
We now consider as fundamental economic functions of the state, many duties that were left a generation ago to chance.
Arthur Capper
ChanceGenerationNowLeftEconomic
If our economies are to flourish, if global poverty is to be banished, and if the wellbeing of the world's people enhanced - not just in this generation but in succeeding generations - we must make sure we take care of the natural environment and resources on which our economic activity depends.
Gordon Brown
PeopleWorldCareGenerationPoverty
Oh yes, my generation liked to be in some pain when they read. The harder it was, the more good we believed it was doing us.
Zadie Smith
GoodPainGenerationDoingMoreYes
Socialisation is not optional. It's an inescapable contract, and our birth into the world is our signature of agreement. Norms and ideologies vary from society to society, and most of them weren't formed during our lifetimes but were handed down from one generation to the next.
Michaela Coel
WorldSocietyGenerationDownBirth
I think one of the nicest things that we created as a generation was just the fact that we could say, 'Hey, I don't like white people.'
Nikki Giovanni
PeopleThinkGenerationWhiteSay
There's a new television generation coming in every five or 10 years, and the classic stories stand up to being redone.
Rebecca Eaton
Stand UpStandGenerationTelevision
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