“Today age segregation has passed all sane limits. Not only are fifteen-year-olds isolated from seventy-year-olds but social groups divide those in high school from those in junior high, and those who are twenty from those who are twenty-five. There are middle-middle-age groups, late-middle-age groups, and old-age groups - as though people with five years between them could not possibly have anything in common.” PeopleYearsAgeTodaySchoolSocialCommonFiveGroupsMiddleLimitsLateHigh SchoolTwentiesOld AgeFive YearsDividesIsolatedSaneFifteenSeventiesSegregationMiddle AgesJuniorsTwenty FiveFifteen YearsJunior HighSocial Groups Author:Suzanne Gordon
“Divorce is one of the loneliest of modern rituals. Before, during, and after the actual culmination of the legal process it is an ordeal that rips people away from their roots, their important relationships, and a part of themselves. There is really nothing like it - except perhaps war.” PeopleImportantWarProcessModernRootsDivorceRitualRipOrdealsCulminationImportant Relationships Book:Lonely in America Source: Lonely in America
“The association between failure, loneliness, and solitude is so strong in our culture that people often find it difficult to believe that there are some who like being by themselves.” PeopleBelieveCultureStrongDifficultLonelinessSolitudeAssociationLoneliness And Solitude Book:Lonely in America Source: Lonely in America
