Sherry Turkle Quotes

Shakespeare might have said, we are "consumed with that with which we are nourished by.

The director of one of the nursing homes I have studied said, "We do not become children as we age. But because dependency can look childlike, we too often treat the elderly as though this were the case.

There is another way to think about conversation, one that is less about information and more about creating a space to be explored. You are interested in hearing about how another person approaches things—her or her opinions and associations. In this kind of conversation—I think of it as 'whole person conversation'—if things go quiet for a while you look deeper, you don't look away or text a friend. You try to read your friends in a different way. Perhaps you look into their faces or attend to their body language. Or you allow for silence. Perhaps when we talk about 'conversations' being boring, such a frequent complaint, we are saying how uncomfortable we are with stillness.

Children contend with parents who are physically close, tantalizingly so, but mentally elsewhere.

Connectivity becomes a craving.

But, of course, what is up on Facebook is her edited life.

Under stress, they seek composure above all. But they do not find equanimity.

He prefers a deliberate performance that can be made to seem spontaneous.