Alissa Quart

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

— 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…

— Alissa Quart

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

— 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…

— 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…

— Alissa Quart

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

— 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…

— Alissa Quart

Part of why daycare is so poorly paid is because the sense that they're prisoners of love, that daycare workers love their…

— Alissa Quart

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

— 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;…

— Alissa Quart

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

— Alissa Quart

Parenting makes us better in so many regards.

— Alissa Quart

There are caste systems in American cities: Many are marginalized to the edges of urban centers due to real estate costs; price…

— Alissa Quart

Uber is hardly the first company to exploit the financial vulnerability of teachers - and the desperation of public schools more broadly…

— Alissa Quart

The daily deluge of tales of lechery and trauma holds a hidden but crucial truism: sexual harassment routinely feeds on income inequality.…

— Alissa Quart

For the rich and powerful, pregnancy might not be an obstacle - it might even help one's career. But for the rest…

— Alissa Quart

Teaching has always been a poorly paid profession, particularly considering its educational requirements and responsibilities.

— Alissa Quart

The list of costly services that supplement some children's public education is growing longer and now includes consultants, tutors, and test prep.…

— Alissa Quart

As consumers, we can pressure corporations both to monitor and improve workplace conditions overseas - when inspections reveal violations, these companies should…

— Alissa Quart

Although federal law prohibits companies with 15 or more employees from discriminating against pregnant job seekers, it can be quite hard for…

— Alissa Quart

In a lot of ways, I had a wonderful childhood.

— Alissa Quart

Precariousness is not just a working-class thing.

— Alissa Quart

On the surface, public schools can seem egalitarian, especially with their websites' emphasis on words such as 'connection,' 'community,' and 'choice.' Yet…

— Alissa Quart

Civic poetry is public poetry. It is political poetry. It is about the hard stuff of life: money, crime, gender, corporate excess,…

— Alissa Quart