Steph McGovern Quotes

I think the class divide is going to change. I think a lot more working class people are going to get published. It is really class ridden, literature.

Everything is about class in England, whether it's upper, lower or middle. Why should that be?

We were working class, and you don't lose that. Later on, I bolted on media middle class... and now people like me are in the House of Lords.

There is a lot more opportunity now, and I welcome all the conversations we are having about diversity, about women and about class... I come from a very working-class background, and I think the class thing is still probably more tricky.

I don't know enough about the lower classes to write about them. I don't feel with them, and that could be regarded as a defect, a limitation of my imagination. I could put myself in their position, but not politically. The idea of writing a story or a book about somebody completely devoid of appreciation of anything I care about is completely foreign to me.

Look, there is a sort of old view about class which is a very simplistic view that we have got the working class, the middle class and the upper class, I think it is more complicated than that.

Class still matters in Britain today.

There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class.

I'm a working-class person, working with class.

Class is real. It can't be faked.

I don't think you can get any more working class than me. Everyone seems posh to me.

They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.

Labor, under their current leadership, want to be the Downtown Abbey party when it comes to educational opportunity. They think working class children should stick to the station in life they were born into - they should be happy to be recognized for being good with their hands and not presume to get above themselves.

The Sixties was a time of breaking down class barriers, although I think class still exists today in some areas.

I come from a working-class background where I was much more likely to read socialist books and leaflets than Bronte or Dickens - neither of whom I've yet read.

Because I came from the working class, I still identify with them. I don't identify with the middle class.

In the States everyone aspires to be middle class. It's so engrained into the American psyche: As long as you work hard you're going to be rich some day. The history of Britain is that if you're born working class, you're going to stay there, although that is changing.

In England we only make films about the working class or the aristocracy.

That which in England we call the middle class is in America virtually the nation.

The competition of the poor takes away from the reward of the rich.

There are a lot of communities within the Asian Pacific Islander umbrella that are predominantly more working-class or lower class, and those stories haven't been told yet, so my hope is that we see the gamut of perspectives.

I've been with all walks of life... All people from all status.

My dad was working class.

I am the typical British aspiring working class. To be called 'elite' by people who have inherited wealth and run hedge funds or worked in the City of London, I don't criticise them for it, but the idea is frankly laughable. Just ridiculous.

I like working-class people, generally speaking.