Quotes About Struggle

COVID-19 has had a major impact on our most vulnerable citizens and their families.

Today, at age 24, when my peers are dating, marrying and having children of their own, my cancer treatments are causing internal and external changes in my body that leave me feeling confused, vulnerable, frustrated - and verifiably unsexy.

Certainly after 'Strictly' I was in a very vulnerable situation.

We like existentially wacky characters who exist in existential crisis.

I don't want my children to have to wade through the crap to get to the cream, you know. I want them to be aware that I struggled to live with and tell my truth, and that it was a decent thing.

I was slapped down to the ground when my son Wade died in 1996, in April of 1996.

I wanted to try and get out of the stereotypical Geordie girl. I stopped wearing fake tan and wore WAG dresses. But I was really miserable.

No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even lift a family out of poverty.

Superior and inferior wage one hundred battles a day.

The minimum wage can play a vital role in lifting hard-working families above the poverty line.

Anyone who's tried to pay a heating bill, fill a prescription, or simply buy groceries knows all too well that the current minimum wage does not cut the mustard.

When the rich wage war, it's the poor who fight and die.

Millions of Americans do essential work but are not paid a living wage.

No person can maximize the American Dream on the minimum wage.

I thought in this country, the best social program was a job. Yet minimum wage jobs aren't paying enough to keep families out of poverty.

Being unemployed - or working at minimum wage - is rough in the best of circumstances.

In Cambodia, education is really a luxury, and many kids are thrown into work as early as possible. This means they can help support their parents, as often the parents don't even earn a living wage.

The current minimum wage simply is not supporting Ohio's working families.

Thousands of Ohio families are going deeper and deeper in debt just trying to pay their heating bills, fill prescriptions, and buy groceries. The current minimum wage is simply not enough.

Look, I know my Chelsea move hasn't worked out how anybody would have wanted and I've made mistakes, but it's not as simple as me just not playing football or picking up a wage.

I spent my 20s earning minimum wage decorating cakes for a living. But one day, I looked in the mirror and realized I wanted more, for me and my people. I saw too many Native Americans struggling, and I realized we should have a voice in who our elected officials are.

I've been out of work myself and hated it. Any work, even on a minimum wage, is better than none.

Those of us in the Congress must confront and overcome Republican intransigence to increasing the minimum wage, extending unemployment insurance and protecting food stamps.

When I recently spent a night at a homeless shelter, I was dismayed that members of the middle class had moved in and that earning above the minimum wage did not protect adults from having to share a room with dozens of others.