Labor Quote by Alissa Quart

In the local state school I attended in England, I saw and heard far more awareness of where a person stood in the social…

— Alissa Quart

Low-cost gear can make restless people like myself feel marginally happier.

— Alissa Quart

'Middle class' used to mean having two children and sending them to high-quality public schools, or even occasionally to private schools. It meant new…

— Alissa Quart

I think our families or parents were trying to do best by us by telling us, 'Do what you love.' On an existential level,…

— Alissa Quart

When I was doing my research for 'Branded,' I'd meet groups of teenagers and preteenagers or tweens, and they would laugh at a magazine…

— Alissa Quart

To be 'squeezed' is to be bound by a very American psychological and socio-economic predicament. Being squeezed involves one's finances, one's social status, and…

— Alissa Quart

Americans overall may live better than medieval aristocrats could dream of, but that means nothing when oligarchs live in the neighborhood next door, flaunting…

— Alissa Quart

A lot of the things that bore adults don't bore children, and people forget that. In some ways, boredom is a projection of adults…

— Alissa Quart

Sometimes I think that the public's lack of criticism of the rich - and how they seek their pleasure - might derive from the…

— Alissa Quart

Piercing minds go mute around poetry. It is imagined to be overly technical, like advanced arithmetic; otherworldly, priestess-like; suffocatingly personal; excessively decorative; exhaustingly bourgeois…

— Alissa Quart

Our social fabric is sundered. GoFundMe and the other crowdfunding sites that have proliferated since 2010 are an example of what has sprung up…

— Alissa Quart

Parenting makes us better in so many regards.

— Alissa Quart