Fay Weldon Quotes

I was having trouble making ends meet, and my beginnings weren't meeting either.

Every day I've got to hear about unemployment and people starving.

Times were so hard it was difficult to feed and lodge humans, much less animals.

This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.

Poverty is no vice, but an inconvenience.

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

Poverty urges us to do and suffer anything that we may escape from it, and so leads us away from virtue.

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

I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family.

Poverty breeds a lot of things. When people are desperate and trying to survive, they do drastic things.

Come away; poverty's catching.

That's the story of my life rich or poor and mostly poor and truly poor.

Poverty is a lot like childbirth - you know it is going to hurt before it happens, but you'll never know how much until you experience it.

I had a low image of myself because I was brought up in the deep Depression.

The hard part that I had to go through in life, period, is living in poverty and not being able to get what I want.

When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.

My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma - like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place - and the way she got out of poverty was through education. My dad grew up without a dad, with very little and he also made his way out through education.

I know what it's like not to have food in the fridge or money to buy more.

Basically as a working class boy I understand when there's not enough money to put food on the table and not knowing where the next dollar comes in from. When you've been in that environment as a child, you never lose it.

Money was tight and Mum used to do two jobs to support us.

I can remember living in the housing projects and being broke like it was yesterday.

I grew up in poverty. For 25 years I was fed on aid.

Bonnie and Clyde grew up in absolute poverty. They didn't go to school or have any money; the only way they could figure out how to get ahead was to steal. The banks were foreclosing on everyone's homes. I think a lot of people will be able to relate to that struggle.

Growing up in a lower-income family, you don't have the resources to make ends meet and you have to find creative ways to get by.