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# Alice Kahn

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Alice Joyce Kahn is an American nurse practitioner and humorist who popularized the slang word "yuppie", describing young urban professionals, and also the term "Gourmet Ghetto", naming an influential retail neighborhood of Berkeley, California. Kahn was a regular contributor to East Bay Express, a

##  Quotes by Alice Kahn

> [... I had always written but I never took it seriously. It was a way of life, not a living.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-kahn/i-had-always-written-but-i-never-took-it-seriously-it-was-a-way-of/)

Alice Kahn

[Life](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/637/alice-kahn-76299_life_i-had-always-written-but-i-never-took-it_131941.jpg)

> [“For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three. ”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-kahn/for-a-list-of-all-the-ways-technology-has-failed-to-improve-the/)

Alice Kahn

[Computer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/computer/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c8e/alice-kahn-76299_computer_for-a-list-of-all-the-ways-technology-ha_993331.jpg)

> [Girlhood ... is the intellectual phase of a woman's life, that time when, unencumbered by societal expectations or hormonal rages, one may…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-kahn/girlhood-is-the-intellectual-phase-of-a-woman-s-life-that-time-when/)

Alice Kahn

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ba1/alice-kahn-76299_broke_girlhood-is-the-intellectual-phase-of-a_2641630.jpg)

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