We weren't wealthy but we definitely weren't poor. We were incredibly rich because there was a wonderful community in Shepherd's Bush, where I grew up. All my friends were into villainy and crime.
I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.
These poor women in academia have to talk this silly language that nobody can understand in order to be accepted, they think.
We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
Children's books are often seen as the poor relation of literature. But children are just as demanding as adult readers, if not more so. I should know. I'm a children's writer myself.
The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
My mother had very poor hearing for many years, until she went basically into - I guess I would call it a psychotic break. She was OK one day, and the next day she was completely cuckoo, violent, paranoid.
If we use goods made from raw materials that are obtained from a poor country without the proceeds being used to benefit the people of that country, we become complicit in a particularly iniquitous form of grand larceny.