97 Quotes by Alissa Quart

Kids don't come cheap.

Like politics, all status is ultimately local - people compare themselves to those they live near.

When I was growing up, my parents thought there could be nothing better than being a writer. And at that time, society afforded that impracticality.

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.

A lot of the things that bore adults don't bore children, and people forget that. In some ways, boredom is a projection of adults because we can't remember what childhood was like.

I think cool originates with the jazz culture in the '40s. There was probably cool before that, but that's when people started talking about cool - Miles Davis and Charlie Parker and a bunch of other early, cool jazz folk.

One thing we're doing with the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, the nonprofit I direct, is providing financial support to journalists who were formerly middle-class.

Making a movie, under any circumstances, is a highly stressful occupation.

The people who talk about the middle class aren't upholding their interests in the legislature.