Quotes from Alissa Quart

If everybody is a Facebook friend, what is an actual friend?

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.

Actors and writers and adjuncts are always looking for their next job: they find common cause with the female Uber drivers on contracts who have also been unprotected victims of sexual harassment.

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

There's no better example of how to lead a difficult employee than to have a child. You have another kind of knowledge from your children that's actually applicable outside of childbearing.