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About Stephanie Land
American author and public speaker
Stephanie Land is an American author and public speaker. She is known for writing memoirs about poverty, motherhood, and the work of surviving on the margins, including Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive in 2019. That book was later adapted into the Netflix miniseries Maid in 2021. Her second memoir, Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education, appeared in 2023 and continues her focus on single parenting, poverty, and the strain of pursuing college. She has also written articles on maid service work, domestic abuse, and poverty in the United States.
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- “Cleaning companies often pay their employees less than a living wage and offer no sick days or health insuran…”Stephanie Land
- “As a parent you know you want to provide safe, healthy environments for your children.”Stephanie Land
- “As a low-income worker, my take-home pay, at best, was about $200 a week.”Stephanie Land
- “I'd had boyfriends berate me for not having dinner on the table, calling me lazy for sitting around with the…”Stephanie Land
Hope: more sayings
- “I think when you think of death as being part of the life cycle and recognize that death is an inevitability…”Sherwin B. Nuland
- “I have a hunch the world is darker than I could ever imagine and there is less reason for hope than I am able…”Brian K. Friesen
- “I hope, what I hope the most is to be more successful as a mother than in show business, because to be a moth…”Celine Dion
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Books by Stephanie Land
Maid
2019