"Only in America do these peasants, our mothers,……" — Philip Roth

Only in America do these peasants, our mothers, get their hair dyed… - Philip Roth

"Only in America do these peasants, our mothers, get their hair dyed platinum at the age of sixty, and walk up and down Collins Avenue in Florida in pedal pushers and mink stoles - and with opinions on every subject under the sun. It isn't their fault they were given a gift like speech - look, if cows could talk, they would say things just as idiotic."

— Philip Roth

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