![]() ![]() “I wish I could say I rushed back and confronted George to get his side of the story. ![]() Besides, I’ve had enough unchosen encounters with poverty in my lifetime to know it’s not a place you would want to visit for touristic purposes it just smells too much like fear.” “My aim here was much more straightforward and objective - just to see whether I could match income to expenses, as the truly poor attempt to do every day. ~Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America, Introduction, So to me, sitting at a desk all day was not only a privilege but a duty: something I owed to all those people in my life, living and dead, who’d had so much more to say than anyone ever got to hear.” “My father had been a copper miner, uncles and grandfathers worked in the mines for the Union Pacific. ![]() Nickel and Dimed Quotes With Page Numbers
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