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Edgar Z. Friedenberg Quotes

Part of the American dream is to live long and die young.

Edgar Z. Friedenberg

Part of the American dream is to live long and die young.

Tags: america, americans

Juvenile appraisals of other juveniles make up in clarity what they lack in charity.

Edgar Z. Friedenberg

Juvenile appraisals of other juveniles make up in clarity what they lack in charity.

Tags: children, childhood

About Author
Edgar Zodaig Friedenberg (March 18, 1921 – June 1, 2000) was an American scholar of education and gender studies best known for The Vanishing Adolescent (1959) and Coming of Age in America (1965). The latter was a finalist for the 1966 National Book Award for Nonfiction.

What we all must decide is how we are valuable rather than how valuable we are.

Edgar Z. Friedenberg

What we all must decide is how we are valuable rather than how valuable we are.

Tags: value

It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time and a fairly romantic nature to want to.

Edgar Z. Friedenberg

It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time and a fairly romantic nature to want to.

Tags: courage, bravery

The 'teenager' seems to have replaced the Communist as the appropriate target for public controversy and foreboding.

Edgar Z. Friedenberg

The 'teenager' seems to have replaced the Communist as the appropriate target for public controversy and foreboding.

Tags: youth