Alice Foote MacDougall Quotes

Whenever you do anything public, you open yourself up to be criticized.

In prosperous times, the marginal workers get by. But in tough times, they get the shaft.

It's so hard to have relationships when there is so much scrutiny.

People are gonna comment no matter what. If I dated the most clean-cut, perfect guy, they're gonna comment. That's just the way it is.

There's a lot of judgement that can come from outside sometimes, and there's media scrutiny that is placed on a lot of women in the public eye, and I just couldn't care less. I really couldn't care less.

In the final analysis, poverty is a condition of helplessness - of inability to cope with the conditions of existence in our complex society.

I always feel terrified whenever I put my work out there to be seen, to be scrutinized. I think it's a very vulnerable thing that we are asked to do.

You put yourself in the public eye. You're kind of an open target.

I feel like a lot of people disregard the scrutiny that people like us are under.

No one could have ever prepared me for the whole world judging me and comparing me to other artists.

My dear friend, we mustn't give them even the slightest excuse to judge us! Otherwise, we end up in pieces.

The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.

Middle income families with children are Australia’s new poor

Economy, the poor man's mint.

I will not bare my soul to their shallow prying eyes. My heart shall never be put under their microscope.

This is the first national administration we've ever seen where the housewife couldn't afford to buy groceries and the farmer couldn't afford to grow them.

Economic privation proceeds by easy stages, and so long as men suffer it patiently the outside world cares little.

Right now you're seeing more and more families reporting that they are skipping meals. They're having to give up meat. Mothers are foregoing food so their kids can have something. People are growing their own vegetables, not because they've gone organic, but because it's one of the few assured sources of food they have. For low-income Americans food is costly right now. The price of food has been going up, and wages haven't. This puts working Americans in a real bind. The fact that the mainstream media hasn't reported it doesn't mean that it's not happening.

Families are struggling to put bread on the table, send their kids to college and take care of their basic needs. America needs a political revolution.

The average family earning minimum wage spends 141 percent of their income struggling to meet basic needs - food, shelter, clothing.

The main cause of poverty is self-inflicted fear and ignorance.

Poverty is not only about income levels, but for lack of freedom that comes from physical insecurity

I fear very much for our kids, for low income people and for seniors.

I just hated poverty.

Nobody who works 40 hours a week should be living in poverty.