“The Baby Boom has spawned an even bigger Grandma Boom. For every baby born, two women turn into grandmas.” TwoTurnsBornBabyBiggerGrandparentGrandmaBaby BornBaby Boom Author:Mary Margaret McBride
“For the past several years, I've been harboring a fantasy, a last political crusade for the baby-boom generation. We, who started on the path of righteousness, marching for civil rights and against the war in Vietnam, need to find an appropriately high-minded approach to life's exit ramp.” NeedsYearsWarLastsPastPoliticalFantasyPathRightsGenerationsBabyApproachCivil RightsRighteousnessVietnamExitCrusadesRampBaby Boom Author:Joe Klein
“I'm part of the consumer culture. I was part of the baby boom generation. I have a car when I shouldn't, a couple of computers; I can't be anti-consumerist in that sense.” I CanCultureGenerationsCarBabyCoupleComputerConsumersConsumer CultureBaby Boom Author:John Elkington
“Baby boomers helped me a great deal in my career. They launched me. They were there for me to sing my song to. And I'm not saying I'm better than anyone, but I think they turned that anti-authority baby boom mentality into their own enemy. Now I identify very closely with their children.” ThinkingChildrenSongDealsEnemyCareersBabyAuthorityMentalityBoomersBaby BoomerBaby Boom Author:George Carlin
“Most of us in the baby-boom generation were raised by full-time mothers. Even as recently as 14 years ago, 6 out of 10 mothers with babies were staying at home. Today that is totally reversed. Does that mean we love our children less than our mothers loved us? No, but it certainly causes a lot of guilt trips.” YearsMeanChildrenDoeHomeTodayMotherCausesInspiringGenerationsBabyYears AgoOur ChildrenGuiltRaisedStayingMothers DayLove Our ChildrenGuilt TripBaby BoomFull Time Mother Author:Jane Pauley
“Just as the baby boom generation seemed to believe it was the first to discover sex, many of its members also seemed to think they were the first to discover the horrors of war.” ThinkingFirstsBelieveWarSexGenerationsBabyHorrorMembersHorror Of WarBaby Boom Book:Useful Idiots: How Liberals Got It Wrong in the Cold War and Still Blame America First Source: Useful Idiots: How Liberals Got It Wrong in the Cold War and Still Blame America First
“There is the global teenager hypothesis, that what happened in the '60s in America was that there was, the baby boom cohort grew up at the same time that television and popular music grew up, so that we had this carrier frequency that we all tuned into that gave us the feeling of a common culture, even though I was in Phoenix and someone was in Des Moines. That now we are getting the global cohort at the same time we have our first global communications. MTV is everywhere.” FirstsFeelingsAmericaCultureCommonHappenedTelevisionCommunicationBabyGrewGrew UpTeenagerHypothesisFrequencyPhoenixMtvCarrierPopular MusicCommon CultureDes MoinesBaby Boom Author:Howard Rheingold
“My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969.” BookPoliticalEnergyGenerationsBabyLifetimeActivismBrandsMy GenerationProfileBrand NewAssertivenessAssertiveBossyGloriaPolitical ActivismBeing AssertiveBaby Boom Author:Camille Paglia
“If you're like most members of the Baby Boom generation, you decided somewhere along the line, probably after about four margaritas, to have children. This was inevitable. Mother Nature, in her infinite wisdom, has instilled within each of us a powerful biological instinct to reproduce; this is her way of assuring that the human race, come what may, will never have any disposable income.” IfsWayHumansMayChildrenMotherParentLinesPowerfulRaceFourGenerationsBabyMembersDecidedInfiniteInstinctParentingIncomeInevitableHuman RaceMother NatureDisposableMargaritaBaby Boom Book:The World According to Dave Barry Source: The World According to Dave Barry