I had, probably, a more challenging experience growing up than most middle-class chicks.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
In my generation, except for a few people who'd gone into banking or nursing or something like that, middle-class women didn't have careers. You were to marry and have children and be a nice mother. You didn't go out and do anything. I found that I got restless.
Honestly, I grew up in pretty modest circumstances. We were a middle-class family.
My parents were determined to move into the middle class.
I grew up a middle class, colonized child of teachers and librarians and people, women especially, who treasured education.
My upbringing was very straightforward suburban working class upbringing.
Contrary to public opinion and the image people have of me, I grew up in a very lower-middle-class, blue-collar environment 40 minutes outside of New York until I was 11.
I'm painfully middle class.
In the early 2000s, I was going through a lot. I didn't have my head screwed on right. Where I was at as a man, I was still growing up.
My upbringing was middle-class but my parents' families were both working-class so I had this odd combination of working-class background but in a privileged position.
I grew up middle class - my dad was a high school teacher; there were five kids in our family. We all shared a nine-hundred-square-foot home with one bathroom. That was exciting. And my wife is Irish Catholic and also very, very barely middle class.