“Mainly, the more faddish and newer stages of life are really just mark...” — Jill Lepore Quote

“Mainly, the more faddish and newer stages of life are really just marketing schemes. Tweenhood. The young old. The quarter-life crisis. You can sell a lot of junk to a lot of people by inventing a stage of life and giving it a name.”

“The idea that debt is necessary for trade, and has to be forgiven, is consequent to the rise of a market economy. The idea that debt is wrong and should be punished is a feature of a moral economy.”

“In the last years of the nineteen-eighties, I worked not at startups but at what might be called finish-downs. Tech companies that were dying would hire temps - college students and new graduates - to do what little was left of the work of the employees they'd laid off.”

“Right after 'Friday Night Lights' ended, I was in sort of an existential crisis.”

“The crisis triggered a fertile period of scientific ferment and revolution in economic theory.”

“Each country thinks its school is in a specific crisis, without ever linking the school's crisis to that of the society around it.”