“Like sex, poverty and power, suicide may always be with us. But like them again, the actual form is takes is essentially time-specific and culture-bound, not only in the past but in the present too. The people who took their lives, the paths which led them to that end, and the experience of dying in this way were deeply influenced by specific historical circumstances. Only by making a greater effort at historical understanding can this most secret house of death be made to yield up more of its confidences.” PeopleWayMayMadeEndsPastFormCultureHouseSexUnderstandingEffortSecretPovertyPathGreaterDyingCircumstancesSuicideHistoricalBoundsYieldBritish History Author:David Cannadine
“Of all the art forms, poetry is the most economical. It is the one which is the most secret, which requires the least physical labor, the least material, and the one which can be done between shifts, in the hospital pantry, on the subway, and on scraps of surplus paper. ... poetry has been the major voice of poor, working class, and Colored women. A room of one's own may be a necessity for writing prose, but so are reams of paper, a typewriter, and plenty of time.” WritingMayHas BeensArtDoneFormVoicePoorRoomsSecretClassPovertyMaterialsPaperMajorsLaborPlentyProsePoetry IsHospitalsWorking ClassSubwayScrapTypewritersSurplusPantry Author:Audre Lorde
“Debt is the secret foe of thrift, as vice and idleness are its open foes. The debt habit is the twin brother of poverty.” SecretPovertyBrotherHabitVicesDebtTwinsFoeIdlenessThriftTwin Brother Author:Theodore T. Munger
“for the poor the whole world is a self-constituted critic; your smallest action is open to debate. No secret place of your soul is safe from invasion.” WorldSoulSelfWholeActionPoorSecretPovertySafeCriticsDebateWhole WorldYour SoulSmallestInvasionSecret Places Author:Alice Foote MacDougall
“Think of the wonders uncorked by wine! It opens secrets, gives heart to our hopes, pushes the cowardly into battle, lifts the load from anxious minds, and evokes talents. Thanks to the bottle's prompting no one is lost for words, no one who's cramped by poverty fails to find release.” ThinkingGivingMindHeartLostSecretWonderPovertyFailingTalentBattleWineThanksReleaseLiftsBottlesAnxiousLoadEvokeCowardly Book:The Satires of Horace and Persius Source: The Satires of Horace and Persius
“The contempt of riches in philosophers was only a hidden desire to avenge their merit upon the injustice of fortune, by despising the very goods of which fortune had deprived them; it was a secret to guard themselves against the degradation of poverty, it was a back way by which to arrive at that distinction which they could not gain by riches.” WayDesireSecretPovertyGainsFortuneInjusticeVery GoodPhilosopherRichesMeritDistinctionGoodsContemptDeprivedDegradation Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“Not afraid of poverty and drabness and who is untouched by it, untouched by the drunkenness of her friends; (she) who judges, selects, discards people with severity, who knows, when she is telling her endless anecdotes, that they are ways of escape, keeping herself all the more secret behind that profuse talk.” PeopleKnowsWaySecretBehindsPovertyJudgingEndlessNot AfraidDrunkennessAnecdotesSeverity Author:Anais Nin
“I grew up hearing over and over, to the point of tedium, that "hard work" was the secret of success: "Work hard and you'll get ahead" or "It's hard work that got us where we are." No one ever said that you could work hard - harder even than you ever thought possible - and still find yourself sinking ever deeper into poverty and debt.” SaidStillsHardSecretPovertyHard WorkGrewGrew UpHarderDeeperHearingDebtFinding YourselfSinkingGet AheadSecret To SuccessTedium Author:Barbara Ehrenreich
“In the past, the poverty they shared had a certain sweetness about it. When the end of the day came and they would eat their dinner in silence with the oil lamp between them, there was a secret joy in such simplicity, such retrenchment.” EndsPastJoyCertainSecretSilencePovertySimplicityDinnerOilThe End Of The DaySweetnessLamps Book:Happy Death Source: Happy Death