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Quotes by Alissa Quart
Alissa Quart is a distinguished American author, journalist, and cultural commentator, known for her incisive explorations of the complexities of contemporary life. Born in 1972, Quart gained acclaim for her thought-provoking books like "Republic of Outsiders" and "Squeezed," which delve into economic inequality and the gig economy's impact on modern existence. As a co-founder of the nonprofit organization "The Economic Hardship Reporting Project," she champions underrepresented voices, leaving a legacy that bridges literature and social activism, illuminating the struggles of everyday Americans.
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"Unnatural constructs - cities and medical pain management - have always seemed pretty good to me."
Alissa Quart"Civic poetry is public poetry. It is political poetry. It is about the hard stuff of life: money, crime, gender, corporate excess, racial injustice. It gives expression not just to our rites but also to our problems and even our values; these poems are not about rustic vacations."
Alissa Quart"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."
Alissa Quart
"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