Susan L. Taylor Quotes

It would be nice if we redefined what we meant by 'war story.' If you're making $15,000 a year living in a certain area of Portland, trying to make it with three kids and no husband, that's a kind of war.

I was once a single mother, with very few resources, so I have a special place in my heart for women in difficult situations.

Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.

From the age of 11, I was cleaning floors, washing dishes, making sandwiches and being a cashier. Survival was the name of the game. Life was so hard that I had to struggle to keep up my standards. Under these conditions, I didn't think about science too much.

Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse.

I grew up in a working-class neighborhood, so there was always a sense of struggle, but we had hope.

My entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment to do something for the poor.

I didn't have the easiest time growing up; it's no secret. We were just poor.

Poverty makes you work really hard.

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

My mom raised us three boys by herself on welfare. It's not worse than anybody else's life.

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

I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.

As an actress for most of my life, I am profoundly familiar with poverty.

People work for a living. They got families to raise. Their lives are tough.

I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.

When I am made fun of in the press I just remember those days when I'd come home to find that the water had been turned off because my mother couldn't afford the bill. Suddenly, everything feels easier.

I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times.

My parents had always preached the virtues of hard work. But hard work is one thing; economic struggle is another.

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.

I come from a poor family.