Why We Can't Sleep. Ada Calhoun

Whitbourne, “The Top 10 Myths About the Midlife Crisis,” PsychologyToday.com, July 21, 2012.

      22 Someone could write a dissertation on women insisting they don’t deserve to feel bad. In 1975’s The Romantic Englishwoman, the wife (played by Glenda Jackson) is asked in bed by her husband (played by Michael Caine): “Are you discontented?” Her reply: “I would be, but I don’t feel I have the right.” The husband steals the line for a screenplay he’s writing.

      23 The song was also covered in 1998 by Ace of Base. After I broke up with him, my boyfriend when I was fourteen left many notes in my locker that sometimes included Ace of Base and Wilson Phillips lyrics. This did not rekindle the passion.

      24 Richard Eisenberg, “Boomers and Gen Xers Skipping Health Care Due to Cost,” Forbes.com, March 27, 2018.

      25 Viv Albertine, To Throw Away Unopened (London: Faber and Faber, 2018), 21.

      26 Jim Tankersley, “Jobless Recoveries Are Here to Stay, Economists Say, But It’s a Mystery Why,” Washington Post, September 19, 2013.

      27 Lynnette Khalfani-Cox, “5 Interesting Facts About Generation X,” AARP.org. Retrieved May 18, 2018. According to research by Experian, Millennials average $52,120 in debt (including mortgages, credit cards, and student and car loans); Boomers and the Silent Generation $87,438; Generation X, $125,000. Also see: Chris Matthews, “America’s Most Indebted Generation? Gen X,” Fortune.com, August 27, 2014.

      28 Khalfani-Cox, “5 Interesting Facts About Generation X.” Retrieved August 5, 2018.

      29 Jeffry Bartash, “Higher Rents and Home Prices Drive Increase in Consumer Prices in December, CPI Finds,” MarketWatch, January 12, 2018.

      30 The average age of a college-educated first-time mother in big cities like San Francisco or New York City is now thirty-three. Quoctrung Bui and Claire Cain Miller, “The Age That Women Have Babies: How a Gap Divides America,” New York Times, August 4, 2018.

      31 Clive Thompson, “You Know Who’s Really Addicted to Their Phones? The Olds,” Wired, March 27, 2018.

      32 Sheehy, Passages, 345.

      33 Ibid., xviii.