The Death of the Grown-Up Quotes

“Chucking maturity for eternal youth may have created the culture of perpetual adolescence, but it should now become apparent that this isn’t the same thing as achieving cultural longevity. The question is, what if it turns out that forever young is fatal?”
― Diana West, The Death of the Grown-Up: How America's Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization

“Once upon a time, in the not too distant past, childhood was a phase, adolescence did not exist, and adulthood was the fulfillment of youth’s promise. No more.”
― Diana West, The Death of the Grown-Up: How America's Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization