Divisive Quote by Selwyn Raab

“There was, of course, nowhere better in the world to be than New York City. This fact was the foundation of her family's satisfaction…

— Jonathan Franzen

“home. What did two of Louis and Regina Borgenicht’s sons do? They went to law school, and no less than nine of their grandchildren…

— Malcolm Gladwell

“That families are better off the stronger and more stable they are is self-evidently important. But so is the notion that no family can…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“Every family has one living patriarch or matriarch, the final arbiter and repository of ancient family history, and Nicole's Aunt Patti was the last…

— Liz Rosenberg

“The kids from Stuyvesant and Bronx Science formed their own pale New York clique that people seemed to leave alone,”

— Michele Campbell

“How New York has fallen off during the last forty years! Its intellect and culture have been diluted and swamped by a great flood-tide…

— Stephen Birmingham

“I came to New York because I was fleeing from the double-wide baby stroller, from the culture of respectability of the bourgeois suburban middle…

— Junot Díaz

“These were the new girls of New York- complete with rapid heartbeats from too much nicotine and coffee. They were nervous and fluttery but…

— Elizabeth Winder

“One of the more unpleasant aspects of living in New York City is how daily proximity to wealth and glamour can instill a desire…

— Kate Bolick

A trait which differentiated New York from European cities was the incredible freedom and ease in which life, including sexual life, could be carried…

— Jerzy Kosinski

“Carl Bridenbaugh’s study of colonial cities, Cities in the Wilderness, reveals a clear-cut class system. He finds: The leaders of early Boston were gentlemen…

— Howard Zinn

There is not one New York but thousands - mixed-up conurbations and microclimates with their own internal logics and charms, dreams and juxtapositions, faces…

— Karan Mahajan