Jack Monroe Quotes

I was broke for more than 10 years. I remember staying up all night one night at my first company and looking in couch cushions the next morning for some change to buy coffee.

Beggars can't be choosers. We don't have all the money in the world. So anyone who wants to be in the band and be broke - that's their own death wish.

I came from nothing. We didn't have money, so I started work at 14 because I really needed the money.

I think I probably have the philosophy of a poor man. You know, like maybe I'd steal the pennies off a dead man's eyes.

I had to steal to survive.

It is difficult to describe in short the enthusiasm and devotion provoked by and given to my research. We lived almost in poverty. I used pencils, two for a nickel, and could not buy a fountain pen, when I lost mine.

If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so confused.

For a long time, I couldn't even afford food and clothing. I climbed from the very bottom of the society.

How can a man help breaking the law when he don't have money to live on?

I have lost everything, and I am so poor now that I really cannot afford to let anything worry me.

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

There's a real sense of desperation when you grow up in poverty.

When I sent those scripts, that was the lowest point of my life. We'd just had our second son, and when I went to collect them from hospital, I went to the bank to try and get some money to buy some diapers, the screen showed I've got $26 left.

I was called McG since the day I was born because we were broke and there were three Joes in the house.

I am a struggling writer. A middle-aged man with two little kids and I'm just trying to earn a living. So buy this book - or my kids will have to go to foster care.

When I was about 8 or 9, I lived in New Jersey with my mother and we were seven deep in one bedroom and sometimes we didn't have electricity.

I didn't have any extra money. But I can't say that I had a hard early career.

I've always found it very sanitary to be broke.

We were living in a tough situation, but my mother managed; she juggled. Sometimes we'd pay the light bill, sometimes we paid the phone, sometimes the gas went off.

I did just about anything to pay the rent for a while.

If I had been brilliant or a genius, I wouldn't have needed to break the law just to survive.

After you've cut back everything else, food is the last to go. I didn't mind putting an extra jumper on if I had food in the fridge. It was the point where I had an extra jumper on and no food in the fridge that I realised things had gone badly wrong.

If you've just been sacked from work, with no money coming in and a baby to feed, clothe and keep warm, it's unlikely you'll have a thousand pounds or so to spare.

There were times when I couldn't even buy a loaf of bread.

When I was studying at the Neighborhood Playhouse, I would overdraft my bank account and not have enough money to buy groceries. But I also discovered how to cook with very limited resources.