Bethenny Frankel Quotes

Up until the time I was 31 years old, in Spain, I still didn't know how I was going to pay the rent.

As long as I can pay rent, that's all I care about.

You have to do whatever jobs you can to pay the rent.

I remember the early days when every month I had to decide whether I should continue to lease a typewriter or if I could finally afford to buy it. Yes, that $12 a month really made a difference in our budget.

I was doing a lot of great theatre, but I just couldn't work out how to make ends meet.

Once you've reached the point where you can pay rent, you can go to the vet and you can go to the grocery store, after that point it's all the same. I don't have the appetite for a decadent lifestyle.

Every day, families in the United States face the stark choice between a roof over their heads and food on the table. Buying health insurance, owning a home, and saving up for college are just too far out of their reach.

Does anyone really believe it is possible to make even the most basic ends meet on $5.15 an hour?

I think money is important for everyone, because the lack of it is so painful.

These days an income is something you can't live without - or within.

I wish our wallet could match our warmth.

It's good to be finally able to afford food for a change. It's good to move on from potatoes and tin soup.

A lot of the times, I end up having to do jobs to sort of pay the bills.

I was broke from 19 to 26, borrowing money from my parents or my brothers or sisters every week to pay the bills.

Being able to afford getting groceries - it frees people up to be creative. I think when you're spending 16 hours of every day to pay your rent and get food, I just don't see where there's time outside of that to be creative and make things.

Nobody likes being broke. As somebody who's had to live out of a 1982 Datsun, trust me. I know. I also understand that the first step to improve your situation is to fix the problem that landed you there in the first place.

Economic security can feel like an impossible goal when you're living paycheck to paycheck, deciding between paying the light bill or the water bill, knowing the decision to pay either one may mean you can't put food on the table.

I've never had anything. I just wanted to one day live comfortable. Like, be able to go out to lunch with my friends without being like, crap, I don't know if I can afford this bill right now. I shouldn't be doing this. That's all I really wanted.

When I was a student, I couldn't afford anything.

People are trying to figure out how to pay bills and make ends meet. They don't want to turn on the TV and say, 'What is this crap?'

I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'

If I had married someone wealthy when I was young, I would have sunk like a stone. Being skint makes life quite clear. You've got to take that job.

When you grow up without it, you want to have it. It's funny, in America some people say, 'Why do you want to make money so much?' And I say, 'Well, I guess you didn't starve as a kid.'

Growing up, I didn't know anything about money other than we didn't have any.

This is kind of a uniquely New York experience, but when you can't afford an apartment nicer than the place you're renting, there's something so inherently depressing about it.