Parenting & Family Quote by Sandra Bernhard

Bernhard’s complaint lands less as a cranky jab at “kids these days” and more as a performer’s diagnosis of a cultural feedback loop. “Unfortunately” frames the line like a reluctant observation, but the real sting sits in “aren’t coming from any place” - a phrase that’s deliberately slippery. She’s not just talking geography or class; she’s talking point of view. Coming from a place means arriving with a lived angle, a particular friction with the world. Without that, questions don’t probe; they repeat.

The subtext is about homogenization: the way higher education can flatten curiosity into a checklist, and how youth culture can turn identity into a set of ready-made positions. “The same kind of questions over and over again” evokes a Q&A that feels like customer service: predictable prompts, safe topics, minimal risk. For an actress-comedian whose work thrives on discomfort, persona, and edge, that’s the enemy. Bernhard built a career on specificity - downtown scenes, celebrity culture, queer-coded provocation, the whole volatile mix. Her line implies that specificity is being replaced by a generic, socially approved inquisitiveness.

Context matters: Bernhard came up in a late-70s/80s ecosystem where subcultures were harder won and originality was currency. The quote reads like a backstage lament from someone watching young people outsource their questions to trends, therapy-speak, or whatever discourse is currently circulating. It’s not nostalgia for ignorance; it’s impatience with curiosity that arrives prepackaged, asking to be affirmed rather than challenged.