Evonne Goolagong Cawley Quotes

Every time there was a shiny car, my mum must have worried it was the welfare people coming for her kids. We had no idea.

We were on welfare when we were kids. Thanks for reminding me of that.

The issue I highlight in the book is welfare reform.

I'd go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.

My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.

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.

The welfare system in the United States is vile.

Welfare is hated by those who administer it, mistrusted by those who pay for it and held in contempt by those who receive it.

We are tired of a welfare system which dehumanizes us and dispenses payments under procedures that are often ugly and paternalistic.

I don't think you ought to walk into this country one day, and the first stop you make is the welfare office.

I grew up on Section 8 housing, food stamps, welfare, and dealing with social services. I never had a Christmas. I never had a birthday.

When I was 16, we get kicked out of our house because my mother and my father were separated, so we didn't have money to pay. We got kicked out and had to live with my grandmother, sleeping in the living room, for many years.

My mom was on welfare for the first five, six years of my life.

We had to grow up very fast. There never was a day when there wasn't shouting about the bills.

I've been on food stamps and welfare, did anybody help me out? No. No.

The fact that we have one out of four people in this state on Medicaid is unsustainable; it's unaffordable, and we need to create jobs in this state, not more government programs to cover people.

I was angry because I see other kids with things that I wanted: they had good parents, they had clothes, they always had food and extra money, and I wasn't one of those kids.

There were times I'd be nervous walking home from elementary school, thinking, 'If that red tag from the power company saying our lights are turned off is on the door handle, I don't know what I'll do.'

Dragged out of your bed at the age of seven, my mother screaming, six kids under the age of 12. I'm not equating my experience with the people who lived in Northern Ireland. But my dad was always out and about late at night, and I could not go to sleep until I knew he was in.

Within New York City and state, families in need face a confusing hodgepodge of supplemental rental assistance programs, many of which are ineffective individually and all of which are clearly ineffective in the aggregate.

Pressure is a man that is wondering how he's going to feed his five kids today.

I had a bad background just growing up as a child.

My nana was strict and didn't express a lot, so naturally, I was scared of him. I would even get the usual 'strict-father' scolding if I didn't study or stick to my curfew.

In financial affairs and dealings with the state, those in the precariat are disadvantaged since they are usually less well-informed and have to do much more to satisfy demands made on them if they want to gain meagre state benefits.

I have seen poverty first hand. My parents were not well-off. They were in Ban'gladesh and I - just a child then - was sent off to live in my uncle's house in Calcutta.