“Television was not cool among the young people of my era, the last yea...” — Michelle Dean Quote

Television was not cool among the young people of my era, the last years of the '90s and the early '00s. It was not just old people who'd castigate you for watching anything but public television. We young people scoffed at each other about it.

Beauty pageants in general are foreign and noxious to me: I can barely muster the energy to put on lip gloss and mascara.

The 'beach read' has become such a ubiquitous concept in contemporary literature that we assume it has always been around. In fact, the term only emerged in the 1990s, usually in book trade publications such as 'Booklist' and 'Publisher's Weekly.'

I've come, even as a feminist, to dread the phrase 'female friendship,' because it tends to signal overdetermined relationships.

I think Facebook is more for old people and, like, adults. My parents use Facebook. I honestly have never been on Facebook.

I think it's strange when people my age and younger get surgery. Somebody's got to play old people.

I have a wonderful respect for old people.

I'm not making music for old people or young people.

I don't want to be one of those old people getting up at 5 A.M. to potter.