Jennifer Egan Quotes about Children

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I'm very interested in the way the Internet has changed teenage life. Obviously it's very different from when I grew up, when there weren't even answering machines, much less computers. I was telling my children this

I'm very interested in the way the Internet has changed teenage life. Obviously it's very different from when I grew up, when there weren't even answering machines, much less computers. I was telling my children this the other day, and the little one said, "Did you have electricity, Mom?" and I was like okay, enough, kid.

Jennifer Egan

Mom, Teenage, Children

"Jennifer Egan’s Novel Approach". Interview with Kiera Butler, www.motherjones.com. May 27, 2010.

Rich children are always blond, Jocelyn goes. It has to do with vitamins.

Jennifer Egan

Children, Vitamins, Rich

Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.31, Anchor

I don't think that all girls seek the influence of older men, but I think girls whose fathers are absent or recessed from their lives often do. And honestly, when I was growing up, fathers were generally pretty absent from their children's lives. We didn't see a lot of them. That may be something that has genuinely changed for the better in our culture: men are more present for their children now that more women are working.

Jennifer Egan

Girl, Children, Growing Up

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Jennifer Egan Quotes about Children

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