97 Quotes by Alissa Quart

No matter how we name and dissect inequality, we must keep explaining the larger downside of such concentrated extreme wealth.

To be sure, many cultural elite pastimes are easily mocked and annoying.

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.

In an economy where women now make up half the work force, we're going to have to address the treatment of pregnant employees more systemically. The passage of the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act would better protect against the discrimination pregnant job seekers face.

I used to teach at the Columbia journalism school, and I would tell my students that every book has to have a sentence that motivates it.

If we don't at least try to make the future more equitable, most of us will left with simply scraps.

Precariousness is not just a working-class thing.

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.

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.