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“...I remembered the rose bush that had reached a thorny branch out through the ragged fence, and caught my dress, detaining me when I would have passed on. And again the symbolism of it all came over me. These memories and visions of the poor--they were the clutch of the thorns. Social workers have all felt it. It holds them to their work, because the thorns curve backward, and one cannot pull away.”

Social Felt Memories Poor Compassion Vision Dresses Rose Workers Caught Remembered Branches Fence Curves Social Work Thorns Symbolism Social Worker Clutch Ragged Rose Bush Detaining

Author:Albion Fellows Bacon

“I had a very down-to-earth product, my wrap dress, which was really a uniform. It was just a simple little cotton-jersey dress that everybody loved and everybody wore. That one dress sold about 3 or 4 million. I would see 20, 30 dresses walking down one block. All sorts of different women. It felt very good. Young and old, and fat and thin, and poor and rich.”

Littles Different Earth Young Felt Simple Poor Millions Rich Products Walking Dresses Very Good Fats Block Uniforms Wraps Jersey Cotton Down To Earth Young And Old

Author:Diane von Furstenberg

“Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars.”

Want Firsts Looks Poor Millions Respect Dresses Dollars Million Dollars First Lady

Author:Imelda Marcos

“Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.”

Kind Seems Poor Missing Dresses Relief Thrown Middlemarch

Book:Middlemarch

Source: Middlemarch

“A commission of haberdashers could alone have reported what the rest of her poor dress was made of, but it had a strong general resemblance to seaweed, with here and there a gigantic tea-leaf. Her shawl looked particularly like a tea-leaf after long infusion.”

Long Made Strong Poor Dresses Tea Leafs Here And There Resemblance Seaweed Infusion

Book:LITTLE DORRIT

Source: LITTLE DORRIT

“The goofiness of radicals thinking they have to dress in Guatemalan peasant clothes. The poor don't want you to look like them. They want you to dress in a suit and go get them food and water. Comma.”

Thinking Want Looks Water Poor Clothes Dresses Suits Radical Peasants Goofiness

Book:Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World

Source: Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World

“I think you ought to let me take poor Tessa into town to get some new clothes. Otherwise, the first time she takes a deep breath, that dress will fall right off her." Will looked interested. "I think she should try that out now and see what happens.”

Thinking Should Trying Firsts Happens Fall Poor Ought Clothes First Time Let Me Towns Breaths Dresses Deep Breath Take A Deep Breath New Clothes

Book:Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“But tomorrow, dawn will come the way I picture her, barefoot and disheveled, standing outside my window in one of the fragile cotton dresses of the poor. She will look in at me with her thin arms extended, offering a handful of birdsong and a small cup of light.”

Way Looks Light Poor Arms Tomorrow Bird Standing Window Dresses Cups Dawn Fragile Offering Handful Cotton Barefoot Birdsong

Book:Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes

Source: Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes

“Even Alexia, spinster that she was, was given an allowance large enough to dress her to the height of fashion— although she did tend to stick to trends a little too precisely. The poor thing could not help it. Her choice of clothing simply lacked soul.”

Littles Soul Enough Helping Choices Given Poor Fashion Dresses Sticks Height Trends Clothings Allowance Spinsters

Author:Gail Carriger

“Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents," grumbled Jo, lying on the rug. "It's so dreadful to be poor!" sighed Meg, looking down at her old dress. "I don't think it's fair for some girls to have plenty of pretty things, and other girls nothing at all," added little Amy, with an injured sniff. "We've got Father and Mother, and each other," said Beth contentedly from her corner.”

Source: Annotated Little Women with English Grammar Exercises: by Louisa May Alcott (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)

“Colombe Josse is the older Jesse daughter. Colombe Jesse is also a sort of tall blonde leek who dresses like a penniless Bohemian. If there is one thing I despise, it is the perverse affectation of rich people who go around dressing as if they were poor, in second-hand clothes, ill-fitting gray bonnets, socks full of holes, and flowered shirts under threadbare sweaters. Not only is it ugly, it is also insulting: nothing is more despicable than a rich man's scorn for a poor man's longing.”

“When I was a kid my family was really poor and I remember one Halloween I wanted to dress up really scary and my parents came home with a duck costume. I wore that costume for years! I hated it.”

Years Home Kids Wanted Funny Remember Parent Poor My Family Dresses Scary Hated Ducks Halloween Costumes Happy Halloween Really Scary Funny Halloween Scary Halloween

Author:R. L. Stine

“There are 200 million poor in the world who would gladly take the vow of poverty if they could eat, dress and have a home like I do”

Ifs World Home Poor Poverty Millions Dresses Vow

Author:Fulton J. Sheen