“If she'd spaced her children out and had eleven babies in eleven years, she would have been no better than her own mother and sisters: irresponsible, a welfare cheat, another bit of Sawdust Lane white trash. But as luck would have it, she'd had them all at once, and now she was, overnight, middle-class. And respectable.” IfsYearsChildrenHas BeensMotherBitsWhiteClassMiddleBabyLuckWelfareMiddle ClassCheatTrashRespectableElevenIrresponsibleLanesWhite TrashSawdust Book:The Mammoth Cheese Source: The Mammoth Cheese
