Erica Jong Quotes

People are trying to figure out how to pay bills and make ends meet. They don't want to turn on the TV and say, 'What is this crap?'

I can only spend $140 a month in here. I'm saving, like, $10,000 a day.

I have a nest egg, and I don't buy above my means.

I'm just trying to get used to living on a fixed income. Now, it's going to get unfixed.

I just spend my money on the essentials. Just basically food and shelter.

I could not finance a movie on my own. Frankly, I could not even afford to take a year off. I, like most people in America, need to keep making money.

You know, not everybody can afford to pay $58 for prime rib or $650 for a bottle of wine. My friends and I cook for regular families who worry about feeding their kids and paying the bills.

On the little money I had collected I lived in Berlin very cheaply, ate very cheaply. And already in 1920 I saved the first salaries I received to go to Munich.

With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can.

There's a foot race between gas bills and paychecks.

These days an income is something you can't live without - or within.

Everyone is trying to make ends meet, and even if you aren't, no one wants to get ripped off.

I've lived on $400 a month in college. I've lived on it fine.

Life is short and so is money.

Saving nickels, saving dimes, working 'til the sun don't shine, looking forward to happier times.

I was broke until I was 40. Really broke. I could get by, but I had nothing.

I'm thankful for the three ounce Ziploc bag, so that I have somewhere to put my savings.

I live like most of the people in my district: paycheck to paycheck.

I've saved every dime I've made in my life.

I kept my clothes on. I borrowed money.

The less money you have, the less inclined you feel to spend it on wholesome food.

I have developed a life which seems to need a relatively high income.

I remember the early days when every month I had to decide whether I should continue to lease a typewriter or if I could finally afford to buy it. Yes, that $12 a month really made a difference in our budget.

The closer I get to retirement, the more I feel it will be a huge change, a shock, because athletics has been the core of my whole life. I know I'll miss the feeling of running fast, the adrenaline rush, and hearing the crowd cheering me on.

We have become 99 percent money mad. The method of living at home modestly and within our income, laying a little by systematically for the proverbial rainy day which is due to come, can almost be listed among the lost arts.