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Nancy Jo Sales QUOTES

21 " Communication is not just about words. It’s about body language, tone of voice, facial expressions, even pheromones, all of which can’t be conveyed through social media. Emoticons are very weak substitutes.” And when nonverbal cues are stripped away, it can limit the potential for understanding, arguably the foundation of empathy. When researchers at the University of Michigan reviewed data from seventy-two studies conducted between 1979 and 2009, all focused on monitoring levels of empathy among American college students, they found that students today were scoring about 40 percent lower than their earlier counterparts. "

― Nancy Jo Sales , American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers

22 " Once upon a time, the American girl was a shining symbol of something fresh, spirited, and fully self-confident. Mark Twain said, “The average American girl possesses the valuable qualities of naturalness, honesty, and inoffensive straightforwardness; she is nearly barren of troublesome conventions and artificialities. "

― Nancy Jo Sales , The Bling Ring: How a Gang of Fame-Obsessed Teens Ripped Off Hollywood and Shocked the World

23 " Young women's expectations of safety and entitlement to respect have perhaps risen faster than some young men's willingness to respect them," says Stephanie Coontz, who teaches history and family studies at Evergreen State College and has written about the history of dating. "Exploitative and disrespectful men have always existed. There are many evolved men, but there may be something going on in culture now that is making some more resistant to evolving. "

― Nancy Jo Sales , American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers

24 " The national hysteria over hippies and punks alike fell right in line with Puritan minister Ezekiel Rogers’ admonition of 1657: “I find great Trouble and Grief about the Rising Generation. Young People are stirred here [in the colonies]; but they strengthen one another in Evil, by Example, by Counsel. "

― Nancy Jo Sales , The Bling Ring: How a Gang of Fame-Obsessed Teens Ripped Off Hollywood and Shocked the World

25 " Prugo gazes at his image onscreen, cocking his head this was and that, making "sexy" faces, checking himself out. Inspired, he gets up and lifts up his shirt, showing off his bare midriff. Then he turns around and does a booty dance for the camera. "

― Nancy Jo Sales

26 " The Mob loved Sinatra not just because he was Italian-American, but because he had crossed over into a nether world in which they could never belong. And he got there because he could do something few people in the world could do as well, and no one in the same way: he could sing. "

― Nancy Jo Sales , The Bling Ring: How a Gang of Fame-Obsessed Teens Ripped Off Hollywood and Shocked the World

27 " the real stars—the ones who made it all the way up to that peak where they’ve been granted by adoring fans an almost godlike status—have always been special in some way, blessed with dazzling gifts and/or beauty, both talented and given to hard work. "

― Nancy Jo Sales , The Bling Ring: How a Gang of Fame-Obsessed Teens Ripped Off Hollywood and Shocked the World

28 " Kids started having their own cameras, en masse, in the 1960s. Kodak Instamatics, which came out in 1963, were inexpensive ($16) and easy to use, durable and small, the perfect size to fit in a child’s pocket or the upper tray of a footlocker on its way to summer camp. The Instagram logo, in a conscious nod, echoes the look of the early Instamatics—a dark stripe on top, metallic on the bottom, with a round flat lens and viewfinder in the middle. The "

― Nancy Jo Sales , American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers

29 " Reading has always been like breathing for me, necessary for existing and thinking. But recently, I find, as I try to make it through the pages, my mind keeps wandering to my phone. What's happening there? What am I missing? "

― Nancy Jo Sales , American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers

30 " For many girls, the pressure to be considered "hot" is felt on a nearly continual basis online. The sites with which they most commonly interact encourage them to post images of themselves, and employ the "liking" feature, with which users can judge their appearance and, in effect, rate them. When girls post their pictures on Instagram or Snapchat or Facebook, they know they will be judged for their "hotness," and in a quantifiable way, with numbers of likes. Social media, which gave us selfies, seems to encourage an undue focus on appearance for everyone, but for girls, this focus is combined with a pervasive sexualization of girls in the wider culture, an overarching trend which is already having serious consequences. "

― Nancy Jo Sales , American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers

31 " And then something different happened. In the 1980s and ‘90s, more so than at any other time in American history, youth culture wasn’t challenging the status quo. Young people didn’t want to change the system – they wanted to game the system. They wanted money. The pursuit of the almighty dollar had always been the purview of soulless grown-ups and parents, but now kids – certainly not all kids, but youth culture overall – were promoting the idea that “getting paid” was cool. […] The goal was success that came from the ruthless pursuit of money for its own sake – in fact, often the more ruthless the pursuit, the cooler it was thought to be. "

― Nancy Jo Sales

32 " A 2010 study by the Internet security firm AVG Technologies found that 92 percent of American children have an online presence before the age of two. Parents post nearly 1,000 images of their children online before their fifth birthday, according to a 2015 poll conducted by the U.K.-based Parent Zone, an online safety site. "

― Nancy Jo Sales , American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers

33 " It's a very interesting sensation, to become invisible, especially when you've been very visible all your life, or at least since you were about twelve years old. It's interesting when the spotlight goes out, and you begin to float through the world like a ghost. "

― Nancy Jo Sales , Nothing Personal: My Secret Life in the Dating App Inferno

34 " She posted a picture of herself in a T-shirt which said “FLAWLESS. "

― Nancy Jo Sales , American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers

35 " Achilles tendon. "

― Nancy Jo Sales , Sex and the Single Mom (Singles Classic)

36 " annihilate "

― Nancy Jo Sales , Sex and the Single Mom (Singles Classic)

37 " Girls need to put down their phones sometimes and pick up books. "

― Nancy Jo Sales , American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers

38 " The real world we inhabit together is the one that matters; we need to find a way of navigating ourselves and our children back there, to the world of true and lasting connection. "

― Nancy Jo Sales , American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers

39 " They were slim and slinky and wearing eyeliner wings and sheer sleeveless tops, short shorts, and ankle boots. It was a sort of hipster, fashionista version of provocative. "

― Nancy Jo Sales , American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers

40 " He further said Neiers “seemed to be a good girl” and had achieved the “highest level in Pilates you can earn.” (When I later contacted the Pilates Method Alliance, the governing body of Pilates in the United States, they said no such ranking exists.) "

― Nancy Jo Sales , The Bling Ring: How a Gang of Fame-Obsessed Teens Ripped Off Hollywood and Shocked the World