Alissa Quart : (5)

" 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 women’s magazine or teen girl magazine and say, ‘I’d never buy this outfit. I know these girls are starving themselves.’ But they probably would go out and buy the thing eventually. " - Alissa Quart

" 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. " - Alissa Quart

" 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. " - Alissa Quart

" 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

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