J. K. Rowling Quotes

Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

Divorce is challenging. When your kids go through things, it's tough. But it's no different for any other woman. And I have great compassion for single moms. It's lousy out there for them. I had the ability to work. I have always been the provider anyway, but there are a lot of women who can't support themselves.

I feel awful for women who are trying to raise kids on their own, with zero income and no fathers present - that's single motherhood.

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

After divorcing, I left South Africa to live in Toronto. They were tough years. On my own with three young children and no income. I'd cry when they spilt milk because I didn't have the money to buy any more.

I was illustrating, and I was cleaning people's houses; I was doing whatever I could to take care of my kid as a single parent.

I was the poorest kid in my school, poorest kid in my town, poorest family. That stayed with me forever.

We didn't have a whole lot of cash growing up. My mom was a single parent for a while before my stepdad came into the picture.

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

Footage of people camped out at Best Buy or elsewhere is not remotely a celebration. Rather, it's a reminder of just how economically distressed a large percentage of our populace is.

I was a single parent, and I was prohibited from working.

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.'

I became married at a young age and had two daughters and divorced at 26. I had to go on welfare to make ends meet. I had no way to support myself.

For a decade, I was a stay-at-home mom. I sent my husband to his law office, sat on PTA boards and baked cookies - great cookies. All of a sudden, I had no husband, no job, few prospects, and two small children who had grown accustomed to eating.

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.

When you look at guys who get recruited, most of the best athletes, they come from poor families. I don't forget. I was a junior looking through my mother's stuff and looked at her bank statement, and we had $30 in the bank.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

Money can't buy poverty.

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

I was going through a divorce, and I had a lot of reading I was doing, and I developed what was probably a serious anxiety problem - because I was about as poor as you can get, in graduate school, and trying to make my work and keep my head above water.

I grew up with no money. No money. I always struggled and had the sense that there was this other class of people who went to college - this was when I was younger.

Until these college students came into town, we were all very poor and didn't have money to do anything.

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.

We had to make ends meet. My parents were divorced, so my father wasn't really in my life. We grew up like most kids, just wanting things.

As someone who grew up in tough circumstances, I know that being on public assistance is not a spot that anyone wants to be in.