While more people are working later in life becaus... -Alissa Quart

While more people are working later in life because of happy things like longer life expectancy, they are also doing so because of very sad things, like a lack of Social Security benefits or retirement plans.

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Alissa Quart is an American author, journalist, and poet. She has written extensively on social and cultural issues, exploring topics such as inequality, work, and family dynamics. Quart's thought-provoking and incisive writing has contributed to important discussions on contemporary society.

Alissa Quart Quotes to Explore

When I was doing my research for 'Branded,' I'd meet groups of teenagers and preteenagers or tweens, and they would laugh at a magazine spread in a wo...
Parenting makes us better in so many regards....
While more people are working later in life because of happy things like longer life expectancy, they are also doing so because of very sad things, li...
There is a set of emotions around money and new technology and advertising and that sort of thing, and there is this kind of changing, transforming wa...
Piercing minds go mute around poetry. It is imagined to be overly technical, like advanced arithmetic; otherworldly, priestess-like; suffocatingly per...
Civic poetry offers us a way to think and talk about issues that so much of public speech ignores, to make them new by dissecting and repurposing publ...
Civic poetry is public poetry. It is political poetry. It is about the hard stuff of life: money, crime, gender, corporate excess, racial injustice. I...
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 und...
Unnatural constructs - cities and medical pain management - have always seemed pretty good to me....
I think teens trust each other's opinions about products because of the quality of authenticity that they think their friend's recommendation has....

Sad Quotes to Explore

The sad fact is that spending rises every year, no matter what people want or say they want....
You get people who come to London, sever links with where they come from, and then when they need people, there's nobody there. To feel like you can't...
Being an old farm boy myself, chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad; they've always made me glad....
It sounds so nerdy and pathetic, but what I always do on Sunday afternoon is bring my inbox down to zero, which is so sad. But e-mail has become like ...
I get to play characters that kind of shock people and I enjoy doing that. I like characters that have meaning and get people in the heart. I want to ...
I was such a sullen, angry, sad kid. I'm sure there are writers who have had happy childhoods, but what are you going to write about? No ghosts, no fe...
The hardest thing to get is true emotion. I always believe you need to earn that with the audience. You can't just tell them, 'Ok, be sad now.'...
I'm not going to do a song that's really sad and thoughtful. Although I've done ballads like 'Dear Darlin',' I want to make them dance and be happy....
If people are paying money to see me, then I want them to walk away from the show knowing they had a really great time. I want it to be very energetic...
I don't really do sad, depressing songs....