Elizabeth White > Quotes

“According to the nonpartisan Employee Benefit Research Institute, EBRI, the deficit between what Americans have and what we need to retire is $4.13 trillion.1”
― Elizabeth White, 55, Underemployed, and Faking Normal: Your Guide to a Better Life

“In the States, it’s not only that we’re not young anymore; we’re not anything.”
― Elizabeth White, 55, Underemployed, and Faking Normal: Your Guide to a Better Life

“What is your “stuck” story? Most of us have one. What’s yours? Is it only a lack of money that’s holding you back? Can you envision a better life for yourself? Is that something that you still see as possible?”
― Elizabeth White, 55, Underemployed, and Faking Normal: Your Guide to a Better Life

“a full-time minimum wage worker cannot afford a modest two-bedroom apartment anywhere in the country.”
― Elizabeth White, 55, Underemployed, and Faking Normal: Your Guide to a Better Life

“we have not managed to save the fifteen to twenty times our annual salaries financial experts tell us we’ll need to maintain our current standard of living in retirement.”
― Elizabeth White, 55, Underemployed, and Faking Normal: Your Guide to a Better Life

“People are not fully defined by either the best or the worst of their actions”
― Elizabeth B. White, The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles During the Holocaust

“find myself shuttling back and forth between old habits and the conscious simplicity that I am seeking”
― Elizabeth White, 55, Underemployed, and Faking Normal: Your Guide to a Better Life