Pamela Druckerman Quotes

I come from a poor family.

My background's working class. My parents had to work to make ends meet. We don't come from any sense of privilege.

Going through economic hard times is something I know firsthand.

My parents did not come to the U.S. with much; they had a lot of hardship.

When we first were working, we had no money. We were all sharing this ghastly flat and we had nothing.

Mum obviously did not earn much money to feed me and my siblings. She worked hard to raise us, but there was always something missing.

Moving to Mumbai was difficult, as survival was a major concern. I was not from a very well-to-do family.

The first years of my life in the U.S. were very difficult.

Poverty leads to hardship and failure.

I didn't have any extra money. But I can't say that I had a hard early career.

I did just about anything to pay the rent for a while.

I - my experience was really no different from any other immigrant that came to this country. It was rough.

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

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

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

We lived in one of those half-basement apartments, and on our first night of being in America, someone reached through the grate that protects the window and stole our laundry detergent - which wasn't a big deal, but it felt symbolic when I heard about it later as an adult.

A lot of times I went to sleep hungry, and not because I was cutting weight for a fight.

I was poor my whole life.

Because I grew up in a single parent home with my mom, growing up, things weren't always the best.

My parents used to struggle to put food on our plates. Whatever little money they got, we had to make do with it.

I've been poor most of my life.

I remember my mother and I sitting down counting off our pennies to pay our bills. We really had nothing.

Then know, that I have little wealth to lose. A man I am, crossed with adversity; My riches are these poor habiliments, Of which if you should here disfurnish me, You take the sum and substance that I have.

My folks ain't graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family - and I come from a big family.

Being someone who had had a very difficult childhood, a very difficult adolescence - it had to do with not quite poverty, but close. It had to do with being brought up in a family where no one spoke English, no one could read or write English. It had to do with death and disease and lots of other things. I was a little prone to depression.