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Alissa Quart
Alissa Quart
American Writer
Born: 1972
Better Class Money People Think You
Related authors: Dale Carnegie Denis Waitley Dr. Seuss H. L. Mencken Napoleon Hill Ray Bradbury W. E. B. Du Bois William Arthur Ward
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 one's self-image. Alissa Quart
Finances Status Bound Involves Self-Image Very American Squeezed Being Predicament Psychological Social Socio-Economic
Economically anxious, many parents see their children's accomplishments as a sort of insurance against the financial challenges of old age; high-achieving kids, this logic goes, will become high-earning adults and therefore be better able to help Mom and Dad pay for the assisted-living facility in a few decades. Alissa Quart
Mom Challenges Age Financial Better Old Will Parents Become Few Old Age Pay Kids Logic See Able Facility Adult Economically Sort Insurance Accomplishments Decades Goes Anxious Children Against Help Mom And Dad Many Therefore Dad
'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 brown Stride Rite Mary Janes with little purple and silver flowers when the old shoes were pinching the toes. Alissa Quart
Class Old Shoes Public Schools Stride Brown Silver Having Purple High-Quality Rite Mary New Schools Occasionally Private Were Pinching Private Schools Sending Middle Children Middle Class Public Little Mean Them Toes Meant Used Even Flowers Two
Money and one of its embodiments, social class, are both riveting and mysterious to children. And if we don't challenge today's stigma around class status, it will warp a new generation's experience of an even more important class - the kind in which they learn. And that's one thing we simply can't afford. Alissa Quart
Today Class Generation Experience Money Challenge Will Important Kind Status One Thing More Both Mysterious Simply New Learn Around Stigma Afford Children Which Social Social Class Warp Even Thing
The daily deluge of tales of lechery and trauma holds a hidden but crucial truism: sexual harassment routinely feeds on income inequality. After all, it's much harder to exploit an equal. Alissa Quart
Daily Hidden Sexual Crucial Deluge Feeds Tales Equal Inequality Truism After Holds Exploit Much Harassment Trauma Income Income Inequality Harder
The middle class is a group defined by more than just money: it also leans on credentials, education, aspirations, assets, and, of course, household income. Alissa Quart
Education Class Money Group Defined More Also Household Course Than Just Middle Middle Class Aspirations Income Credentials Assets
There are things that neuroscience is useful for in terms of understanding behavior, but there are also things it is not all that useful for, like understanding the nuances of our reactions to poetry. Alissa Quart
Behavior Understanding Our Poetry Neuroscience Like Terms Also Reactions Useful Nuances Things
Giftedness gives you this amazing tool kit for handling self-discipline and gives you an area of knowledge, but then it also gives you this weird set of aspirations. Alissa Quart
Knowledge You Amazing Tool Gives Kit Area Weird Self-Discipline Also Handling Then Aspirations Set
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 or tiringly avant-garde. Alissa Quart
Minds Mute Poetry Excess Advanced Arithmetic Like Bourgeois Piercing Around Overly Go Personal Avant-Garde Decorative Technical Imagined
In a lot of ways, I had a wonderful childhood. Alissa Quart
Wonderful Ways Had Lot Wonderful Childhood Childhood
Having been built in the fashion I was as a child - created and then deflated - has left me with a distinct feeling of failure. Because I did not live up to my precocity, I experience it to be like a cross between a has-been and a never-was. Alissa Quart
Fashion Me Failure Experience Feeling Live Distinct Has-Been Cross Having Between Like Because Built Been Left Up Child Did Then Created
Precariousness is not just a working-class thing. Alissa Quart
Just Working-Class Thing
Like politics, all status is ultimately local - people compare themselves to those they live near. Alissa Quart
Politics People Live Local Those Status Like Ultimately Themselves Compare Near
Going in and out of a proverbial 'poor door' - a separate entrance for income-restricted residents of mixed-income housing - of your city every day has its costs, even if the 'poor door' woman would be considered affluent in another location. Alissa Quart
Day Woman Every Day Every Considered Location Out Would Would-Be City Costs Entrance Another Housing Proverbial Affluent Going Door Poor Separate Your Even Residents
Brand loyalty starts in the cradle and ends in the grave, as I wrote in my first book, 'Branded: The Buying and Selling of Teenagers.' Alissa Quart
Loyalty Book First Starts Teenagers Wrote Selling Brand Branded Cradle Ends Grave Buying
To be sure, many cultural elite pastimes are easily mocked and annoying. Alissa Quart
Easily Annoying Sure Cultural Mocked Many Elite
The effect of robotization would be profoundly different if, say, truckers possessed their own autonomous vehicles rather than a corporation controlling them all. Alissa Quart
Own Controlling Corporation Say Possessed Would Would-Be Rather Vehicles Effect Than Different Autonomous Them Profoundly
I grew up in New York City and in London. Alissa Quart
City London New Up York New York New York City Grew
In the local state school I attended in England, I saw and heard far more awareness of where a person stood in the social hierarchy than I had ever heard stateside. Alissa Quart
School Awareness State Local Saw Hierarchy More Had Attended Heard Than Person Stood Where Social Far England Ever
When I was a young child, professional aspiration was synonymous to me with the clatter of my mother's high-heeled boots as she went off to teach each 1970s weekday morning, carrying her graded blue books under her arm. Alissa Quart
Morning Me Mother Young Books Synonymous Boots Carrying Arm She Off Child Blue Young Child Teach Aspiration Professional Each Her
I love the show 'Billions.' But the main character is basically a hedge fund scumbag, and he's the hero. Alissa Quart
Love Character Hero Main Main Character He Hedge Show Billions Fund Basically
Parents who press their children to succeed do so in hopes of preparing them for an adulthood of high achievement. Alissa Quart
Achievement Parents Press High Hopes Adulthood Children Succeed Them Who Preparing
Like other elements of childhood for the precociously gifted - private or home schooling, overstructured activity, and proto-professional training - edutainment products are part of a system that divides children into haves and have-lesses. Alissa Quart
Home Training Other System Gifted Divides Part Like Schooling Private Childhood Children Products Home Schooling Activity Elements
When I was 13, Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground made more sense to me than anything else. Alissa Quart
Me Made Sense Else More Velvet Underground Reed Lou Reed Than Anything Anything Else
The Southern California arena rock, hair metal, laidback hippie garden culture - for many growing up in the '70s and '80s, none of it made us who we were like Lou Reed did. Alissa Quart
Garden Culture Made Hair Arena Like California Metal None Rock Hippie Reed Were Up Lou Reed Southern Southern California Did Us Who Many Growing Growing Up
On the surface, public schools can seem egalitarian, especially with their websites' emphasis on words such as 'connection,' 'community,' and 'choice.' Yet despite this democratic vocabulary, money makes a big difference. Alissa Quart
Words Money Websites Big Community Public Schools Despite Seem Vocabulary Emphasis Democratic Schools Makes Surface Big Difference Egalitarian Difference Public Choice Connection
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