14 Quotes by Jessica Bruder

The truth as I see it is that people can both struggle and remain upbeat simultaneously, through even the most soul-testing of challenges.

Americans now fear outliving their assets more than they fear dying.

Many hoped life on the road would be an escape from an otherwise empty future.

The capitalists don’t want anyone living off their economic grid.

The top 1 percent now makes eighty-one times what those in the bottom half do, when you compare average earnings. For American adults on the lower half of the income ladder – some 117 million of them – earnings haven’t changed since the 1970s.