Well, it's a good life and a good world, all said and done, if you don't weaken.
--You're rather well read for a working-class girl, she said with her back to me. --Really? I've found that all my well-read friends are from the working class. --Oh my. Why do you think that is? The purity of poverty? --No. It's just that reading is the cheapest form of entertainment. --Sex is the cheapest form of entertainment. --Not in this house.
People often say that football and boxing are the ways out of the working class and they are your ticket out of that kind of life, if you happen to want to leave it. But, for me, the library is the key. That is where the escape tunnel is. All of the knowledge in the world is there. The great brains of the world are at your fingertips.
No one has a copyright on working-class struggles.
During grade school, we moved to a white, working-class suburb in San Diego, and there were no Mexicans.
I spent the 1960s and 1970s seeking myself - the working-class tradition of self-education.
My sympathies have always been for working-class people.
Tax cuts that actually go to working-class, middle-class people, I'm not opposed to.
