Rebecca Traister Quotes

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.

We don't make enough in our job to live the way that we would want to and to have the support that we would need. Most of our income doesn't even come from our salary from our employer and we have to find income from other places.

Footage of people camped out at Best Buy or elsewhere is not remotely a celebration. Rather, it's a reminder of just how economically distressed a large percentage of our populace is.

Mine was quite a working-class childhood with very little money, and my father was out of work a couple of times, which had quite a traumatic effect.

The world knows already, they just don't have a picture up there or I'll spend the rest of my life in exile. It's hard to do that when you don't have any money.

I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very big concern. I was weaned on a shortage mentality and placed in foster homes largely because there simply wasn't enough money to take care of the most basic of needs.

Every day, families in the United States face the stark choice between a roof over their heads and food on the table. Buying health insurance, owning a home, and saving up for college are just too far out of their reach.

We had plenty of clothes and no money.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

I was the second of six kids. I wouldn't say we were poor; we had no money. That's different.

Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

I grew up with no money. No money. I always struggled and had the sense that there was this other class of people who went to college - this was when I was younger.

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.

… there are a great many people who not only can make no budget but can barely manage to exist with their families on what they earn from day to day

I come from a family that doesn't have a whole lot of money.

The burden of poverty isn't just that you don't always have the things you need: it's the feeling of being embarrassed every day of your life, and you'd do anything to lift that burden. As kids, we didn't complain about being poor; we talked about how rich we were going to be and made moves to get the lifestyle we aspired to by any means we could.

My mom didn't have a lot of money.

I didn't grow up in the slums or anything that dire, but I know what it is to grow up without having money or being able to support family.

We came from nothing really. One house. Ten people. Even days the lights was off. The worst days was not eating. Surviving off rice and toast.

I was the poorest kid in my school, poorest kid in my town, poorest family. That stayed with me forever.

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

Anybody who lives in Colombia knows that if you don't have any money - I tell you what - you don't have many options.

I didn't have money growing up.

I'm the sole provider for my child, I don't get any help. I'm not saying we're poverty stricken, but it does mean I have to work hard.

I never felt poor. Our family euphemism was that we were broke, which I think psychologically gave you a different feeling. There were people far worse than we were.