Privilege Lost Quotes

“The daughter of a financial manager and a stay-at-home mom, her father’s income allowed her to grow up in a large house in a coastal suburb and his hands-on parenting style and graduate school education gave her a live-in tutor and academic coach.”
― Jessi Streib, Privilege Lost: Who Leaves the Upper Middle Class and How They Fall

“A four-year college degree and professional job define membership in this social class, and only about one in five white American children have at least one parent with these statuses.”
― Jessi Streib, Privilege Lost: Who Leaves the Upper Middle Class and How They Fall