Martha Quinn Quotes

In 1996, after 29 years as an artist for Marvel Comics, I got fired - 56 years old, two children still in college, and no job.

Most of the people I meet who are on unemployment are people who have had jobs for 25 years, lost them; they've been knocking on doors every week.

I was happy being a journalist. I didn't realize losing my job, my identity went with it.

Our businesses can't create jobs when they're losing revenue, and the unemployed can't apply for jobs when they can't pay their phone bill.

Every time you walk down the street people are screaming, 'You're fired!'

I still have my unemployment books and I remember when I worked for the sanitation department and the post office.

If you've been laid off, you know how it goes: Everything you thought you knew and liked about yourself gets called into question.

I'm grateful I know what it's like to be unemployed for long periods of time.

I have a lot of hard-working, blue-collar people in my district who are at the end of their unemployment benefits.

I was probably scarred by getting the sack at Middlesbrough.

You know, my Grandpop Finnegan used to have an expression: he used to say, 'Joey, the guy in Olyphant's out of work, it's an economic slowdown. When your brother-in-law's out of work, it's a recession. When you're out of work, it's a depression.'

The toughest workout can never match the pain of being out of work.

I started out when I was 29 - too young to write novels. I was broke. I was on unemployment insurance. I was supposed to be writing a Ph.D. dissertation, so I had a typewriter and a lot of paper.

I can tell you that when I travel the state, when I talk to people, they are really struggling, in a very real way. They're losing their jobs, they're losing their homes, they're dealing with financial challenges.

When you're unemployed for six months or a year, it is hard to qualify for a lease, so even the option of relocating to find a job is often off the table.

In a packed programme tonight, we will be talking to an out-of-work contortionist who says he can no longer make ends meet.

People often think that losing your job is one of the worst things that can happen to someone. And, in some cases, that might be true. But for me, unemployment can be the time and the motivation to finally go after my goals.

Men and women of high professional standing have been reduced to the status of vagrants.

When I was a deacon, the ominous signs of the Great Depression began to appear. Tens of thousands lost their jobs. Money was scarce. Families had to do without. Some young people did not ask their mothers, 'What's for dinner?' because they knew all too well that their cupboards held very little.

Going on unemployment was a total low point for me, but it was also the point when I promised myself I'd write every day from 9 to 5.

I worked at the Illinois unemployment office. I got $55 a week and the unemployed got $45. And they only had to come in once a week.

In some states unemployed workers have to call overseas to find out about their benefits.

Unemployment is painful.

I was almost ready to call it quits - sick of doing a job and then being back on the unemployment line and trying to make ends meet. But I loved acting and didn't know what else to do.

I know what unemployment means because I was unemployed for one-and-a-half years, and I know the drama that the worker and unemployed worker faces. I know the world of the labor union better than I think anyone else does.