Edmund Wilson Quotes

Very few people can afford to be poor.

Growing up low income and poor, I didn't have the best relationship with money.

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.

Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

You and I can be busy, and we take a vacation from work. You can't take a break from being poor. You can't say, 'Hey I've had enough of worrying about money, I'm just going to be rich for a couple of weeks until I've recovered.'

There's not much money in Tallahassee. Not many people can leave Tallahassee because they don't have the means.

Thousands of Ohio families are going deeper and deeper in debt just trying to pay their heating bills, fill prescriptions, and buy groceries. The current minimum wage is simply not enough.

When you're poor, you don't want anyone to know you're poor.

It's such a Bore Being always Poor.

Let's start off with my father being a mailman. So I understand the concerns of all the folks across this country, some of whom having trouble, you know, making ends meet.

Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.

You know, when you're poor and you have a bunch of kids in your family, you don't know that everybody's not poor.

Bankruptcy exposes the economic vulnerability and insecurity of middle class women.

People who didn't know the depression just don't know what being poor means.

Too many jobs don't pay enough to get by, let alone get ahead.

Political rights notwithstanding, 'freedom' rings awfully hollow when you're getting nickel-and-dimed to death in your everyday life.

My mom didn't have a lot of money.

You cannot understand what it means to be poor until you have suffered it.

We need to truly understand what economic injustice and inequality looks like for hard-working Canadians grappling with it every day on the ground, at home and at work.

I was one of the poorest people in America.

Americans shouldn't have to hold down two or three jobs to make ends meet.

I have way more experience being poor than I do having money.

There are far too many people who get up early in the morning, and work hard, who cannot make ends meet.

I'm proud that I've never stopped writing about being poor.

I never felt poor. Our family euphemism was that we were broke, which I think psychologically gave you a different feeling. There were people far worse than we were.