Poor Rich

Famous quotes containing the words poor and/or rich:

    And so I will take back up my poor life, so plain and so tranquil, where phrases are adventures and the only flowers I gather are metaphors.
    Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)

    The mother’s battle for her child—with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life—needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.
    —Adrienne Rich (20th century)