A biography for Stephanie Landhasn’t been written yet.
“I'm a huge believer in universal childcare.”
“I have had PTSD since I was in a car accident when I was 16.”
“Dating as a single parent is tricky. My kids are usually seen less as a 'bonus' and more as a 'situation.'”
“Americans, if anything, do not like to be told to cut back.”
“I'm white. I have privileges as a parent that many others don't. Of not only teaching but expecting my daughter to stand up for herself because I have no fear that harm will come to her when she does. I am reassured by her teachers that her willfulness will do her good as she gets older.”
“I worked part-time cleaning houses, and went to school full-time.”
“I grew up in what some would call an immaculately clean home. I hated my mom a little for it. I wasn't allowed to paint my nails, since they'd chip and 'look trashy.' My brother and I didn't run around in clothes that had holes or were stained.”
“Remember The Nothing? It was a gigantic, black storm from 'The Neverending Story' that fed on fear and doubt and sadness and hate and uncertainty and didn't stop until everything was gone. That is what Trump feels like to me.”
“I don't believe life begins at conception.”
“If we can at least make sure that our children are taken care of, that will ease the minds of their parents who are trying to work.”
“Parents of all income levels deserve options for child care while they work so they can be free of the worry that their children are cared for and safe.”
“Having the ability to walk to the grocery store, ride my bike miles away to a friend's house, and spend most of the day unsupervised gave me confidence in myself. But I don't give my daughter that same freedom, and I never have, because I fear the possible repercussions.”
“My family, for generations, has struggled through the effects of working blue-collar jobs long past the age of retirement.”
“The small things that make Christmas magical are the things children will remember. It doesn't matter what they open on Christmas morning, I don't remember what was in half the boxes I opened as a kid. What mattered were the decorations, the cookies that were mysteriously eaten, and the stockings that were filled.”
“We need leaders who are able to vividly remember how it feels to experience hardship, trauma and pain, who make us feel less alone.”
“As a single mother, I qualified for Pell Grants, and received a scholarship from a small organization for domestic violence survivors.”
“I didn't grow up in systemic poverty.”
“Keeping lice out of schools should be a herd immunity type of attitude. Schools should send home brochures with a plastic comb attached in an envelope.”
“We don't like to listen to people who are still angry, who are still in poverty, especially people of color.”
“As a mother living in poverty, I don't expect my parenting choices to be respected by default.”