“But then I got fired from so many jobs, I ended up retiring and being supported by my parents.”

— Jonathan Mitchell

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American writer and activist 1955

Susanna Kaysen book Girl, Interrupted

Girl, Interrupted (1994)
Context: And the college business: My parents wanted me to go, I didn’t want to go, and I didn’t go. I got what I wanted. Those who don’t go to college have to get jobs. I agreed with all this. I told myself all this over and over. I even got a job—my job breaking au gratin dishes. But the fact that I couldn’t hold my job was worrisome. I was probably crazy. I’d been skirting the idea of craziness for a year or two; now I was closing in on it.

“When I was a kid I got no respect. When my parents got divorced there was a custody fight over me… and no one showed up.”

Rodney Dangerfield (1921–2004) American actor and comedian

Source: It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect But Plenty of Sex and Drugs (2004), p. 10

“When a man is forced into early retirement, he is often being ‘given up for a younger man.’ Being forced into early retirement can be to a man what being ‘given up for a younger woman’ is for a woman… Why do many men get more upset by retirement than women do from the empty nest —when their children leave home? When females retire from children, they can try a career; when a man retires from a career, his children are gone.”

Warren Farrell book The Myth of Male Power

Source: The Myth of Male Power (1993), Part II: The Glass Cellars of the disposable sex, p. 174.

“If you got caught screwing around on the job, you'd probably get fired, and so would I. Why should he get away with it?”

Maddox (1978) American internet writer

on Bill Clinton
Grow a pair and impeach that horny bastard http://maddox.xmission.com/clinton.html
The Best Page in the Universe

“I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my makeup box.”

Bette Davis (1908–1989) film and television actress from the United States

“In my life I've been through plenty. when I was three years old, my parents got a dog. I was jealous of the dog, so they got rid of me.”

Rodney Dangerfield (1921–2004) American actor and comedian

Source: It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect But Plenty of Sex and Drugs (2004), p. 6

“My parents are very supportive of me, I’m their only child, of course, so I always have to call them before I leave and when I arrive somewhere. Sometimes I still don’t think they really understand what I’m doing! I think they’re just happy that I’m happy and I love my job.”

Liu Wen (model) (1988) Chinese model

Source: "Liu Wen Talks Style, Diversity And What It Means To Be China’s First Supermodel" in Marie Claire https://www.marieclaire.co.uk/news/fashion-news/liu-wen-interview-china-s-first-supermodel-talks-style-diversity-and-her-mango-campaign-15375 (3 March 2016)

“And my parents made me want i am. So what? We get stuff from our parents, but we also get stuff from the world around us. From people around us. And at the end of the day, we're us.”

Barry Lyga (1971) American writer

Source: I Hunt Killers

“Why do so many things end in fire?”

Daniel Handler (1970) American novelist, children's writer, creator of Lemony Snicket

Lemony Snicket
Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography (2002)

“I didn’t inherit my job or my income, and I worked to get where I am. Given the economy, there’s no retirement in sight, and I’m tired. Very tired.”

Robert A. Hall (1946) American politician

I'm Tired (February 19, 2009)

“But then I got fired from so many jobs, I ended up retiring and being supported by my parents.”

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