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Liz Murray

American, Businesswoman

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Myself Homeless Realized

I realized eventually that when I ran out of places to stay and found myself on the D train and in Central Park, I was actually homeless.

- Liz Murray

Blind Schizophrenic Turned

As well as being blind, Ma turned out to have the same mental illness that her mother had had. Between 1986 and 1990, she suffered six schizophrenic bouts, each requiring her to be institutionalised for up to three months.

- Liz Murray

Through Streets Turned

I had a calling inside of me. I had a sense that when I was going through experiences like living on the streets, losing my parents to AIDS, just having my whole world turned upside-down, there was this feeling inside of me like I was meant for something greater.

- Liz Murray

Back Welfare Turned

Shortly after I turned 13, Child Welfare took me into care. I was sent to a residential centre where girls with behavioural problems were 'evaluated'. My time there comes back to me now only in flashes of smells, images and sounds.

- Liz Murray

My Life Big Becoming

I guess if there is a big spiritual experience in my life, it is me becoming a mother.

- Liz Murray

Give Okay Took

The lesson that people can't give me what they don't have, and if there's anything I took from it, it was: okay, I don't really expect anyone to hand me anything. There's going to be me and the world.

- Liz Murray

Living New Been

I'd been living on the streets of New York, and I was sleeping at my friends' houses, sometimes in the subway.

- Liz Murray

My Life Like Been

I feel like my life has been a series of miracles. I was in every sense a lost cause.

- Liz Murray

My Life Doing Learned

I've learned in my life that you really don't know what's possible until you're already doing it.

- Liz Murray

Black Like Younger

I have just one black and white photograph left of my mother when she was younger. She was 17 when it was taken and beautiful with wispy curls and eyes that shone like dark marbles.

- Liz Murray

Living Never Formal

I was 17 and living on the streets. I had the education of technically an eighth-grader, but in reality, I had never had a formal education.

- Liz Murray

Blind Entitled Had

Ma was legally blind due to a degenerative eye disease she'd had since birth. This meant she was entitled to welfare, and our lives revolved around the first day of every month when her payment was due.

- Liz Murray

Thought My Life Next

If I could have a family and a home one night, and all of it's gone the next, that must mean that life has the capacity to change. And then I thought, 'Whoa! That means that just as change happens to me, I can cause change in my life.'

- Liz Murray

Break Though Strategies

There was just so much attention that got focused on my story, and what that created was an opportunity for me to share what were the tools, what were the strategies, what was the thinking that had me break though those boundaries.

- Liz Murray

Limited Carve Occurred

I realized that I had the ability to carve out a life for myself, that it was in no way limited by what had already occurred in my past. And that inspired me to go to school.

- Liz Murray

Own Take Charge

When you take charge of your own narrative, it gives you a handle on it.

- Liz Murray

Die My Life Became

Like my mother, I was always saying, 'I'll fix my life one day.' It became clear when I saw her die without fulfilling her dreams that my time was now or maybe never.

- Liz Murray

Next More Okay

I guess more than anything, I just realized, okay, one day I had a home to live in and my family around me. The next day, I did not.

- Liz Murray

Loving Test Waters

If I want to be a loving, generous, giving person, I'm not going to test the waters. I'm simply going to be a loving, generous, giving person.

- Liz Murray

Magic Big Had

If I had a magic wand, I would live in a building in New York, big enough so my friends, my family could all have apartments in it. We'd raise our kids in the same space and have backyard barbecues and get old and fat together.

- Liz Murray

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