Home Quote by Bharti Singh

You know how people love to glamorize poverty? There's nothing glamorous about it. But it did make me really creative. Those days, I was…

— Beth Ditto

As I looked about the world, so much of it impoverished, I became increasingly uncomfortable about having so much while my brothers and sisters…

— Peace Pilgrim

I grew up in poverty. I was ashamed of the fact, when we were kids, we'd be at school hungry, our stomachs rumbling so…

— Jimmy Barnes

In part because of my own journey from a council estate in East London to a seat in the House of Commons, and in…

— Wes Streeting

A good use for me is to let me go away with my sewing machine and come back with some really new stuff.

— Betsey Johnson

My mother imparted her daily truths so she could help my older brothers and me rise above our circumstances. We lived in San Francisco's…

— Amy Tan

Even when you work from home, getting yourself dressed is the first step. I often find there are days where I'll be in my…

— Jessica Mulroney

I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.

— Taylor Caldwell

There seem to me a great many blessings which come from true poverty and I should be sorry to be deprived of them.

— Teresa of Avila

There are people in poverty who, if they have the gumption, say, "I'm leaving here. I'm gonna take three jobs and make it." There…

— Alan Sparhawk

So long as I confine my activities to social service and the blind, they compliment me extravagantly, calling me 'arch priestess of the sightless,'…

— Helen Keller

You can work, shop, do everything from home, and I find this unsettling.

— Patrice Leconte