About Quote by Jamaica Kincaid

I come from a family of eight on public assistance, my parents were separated. My mother struggled, my father struggled.

— Letitia James

After my father died, we faced hardship but never asked anybody for help. We were self-sufficient.

— Mamata Banerjee

When we came to this country, unfortunately, my father lost his job, and we were this close to destitution. We were put on food…

— Raja Krishnamoorthi

I grew up in a family where my parents worked full-time and still found themselves and their six children trapped like so many of…

— Stacey Abrams

My parents got divorced when I was five. My father left for a time, and my mother had to go on welfare. She worked…

— Neera Tanden

I got my family here and my career here and I'm sitting here in the middle, and I'm stuck. So I have to do…

— William Perry

I was a young mother with a dependent. I went from nice flat and fire service job to cold and hungry with a child.…

— Jack Monroe

I was a single parent, and I was prohibited from working.

— Alison Moyet

I was trying to support a family with writing. I didn't have a private income. I had no other profession.

— John Updike

In my early years, my father was away as a soldier in the war. When he came back, work was very difficult to come…

— Trevor Nunn

So when I made some money, I didn't have any idea how one handled such a situation because no one in our family ever…

— Jim Harrison

When I was forty, I was getting divorced, living in a low-class, dirty hotel in New York. My mother was dying of cancer. I…

— Rodney Dangerfield