Elizabeth "Liz" Murray (born (1980-09-23)September 23, 1980) is an American inspirational speaker who is notable for having been accepted by Harvard University despite being homeless in her high school years. Read full biography of Liz Murray →
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... →
I've learned in my life that you really don't know what's possible until you're already doing it.
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.
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... →
I feel like my life has been a series of miracles. I was in every sense a lost cause.
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... →
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... →
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... →
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... →
Shortly after I turned 13, Child Welfare took me into care. I was sent to a residential centre where girls with behavioural problems were... →
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... →
When I grew up in the Bronx, we always had everyone telling us, 'Watch out for the system, watch out for child welfare, watch out, they'll... →
I'd been living on the streets of New York, and I was sleeping at my friends' houses, sometimes in the subway.
Elizabeth "Liz" Murray (born (1980-09-23)September 23, 1980) is an American inspirational speaker who is notable for having been accepted by Harvard University despite being homeless in her high school years.