Caitlin Moran Quotes

People like me who grew up in a working-class town, who don't have a college education, you don't usually hear from us.

I think clever people think that poor people are stupid.

Some people write me off as a bit of a hick from an Essex council estate. I realize that. But I can read.

I reckoned my accent and class would count against me; I didn't see actresses as being working-class.

I was brought up on a council estate. I know what it's like to be poor.

Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.

Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn't work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in a cotton mill until 18 or 19, when she took some training in domestic science.

I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged.

I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're upset about.

I come from a working-class background in Queens, New York.

Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.

Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.

The poor are discussed as this homogeneous mash, like porridge. The idea that they might be individuals, and be where they are for very different, diverse reasons, again seems to escape some people.

They do not easily rise whose abilities are repressed by poverty at home.

‘The laboring poor’ is a detestable, canting phrase.

The ‘poor white’ is actually degraded; the mountain white is a person not yet graded up.

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

There is one group that is more consistently portrayed as ineffectual, as unvirtuous, as incompetent, as objects of fun, and that is white working class guys.

Hispanics who get on government programs are doing only a little better than they were in the old country.

My family wasn't involved in the college. They were more of just your 'white trash' kind of family. And so I have that kind of background, but I always kind of aspired to be something else, and I made a lot of different friends over the years that were passing through.

I'm not a fan of the working class being mocked, including by some of our famous writers - even those who came from it.

Not that I am hugely working class, but in the U.K. I'm always perceived, casting-wise, as being working class.

In Britain, when the working class are summoned for fiction, it's 'isn't it a shame, isn't it a pity, isn't it awful, the terribly poor things... ' whereas from within, it's nothing like that. It's fantastic, it's glamorous, it's terrible and good the same as it is for everybody.

I come from a working class family. We barely had anything.

I used to live in a street in Bristol which was, depending on your tabloid of choice, either Britain's most dangerous street or a moral cesspit. People made judgments about me on where I lived. It affected me - it affected my life chances. That is going on today with people in social housing. That, to me, isn't acceptable.