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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.
More from Stephanie Land (100 quotes) →Keep reading Stephanie Land
- “My mom grew up in extreme poverty, and always spoke of it with a look of disgust. She felt pressured to fit i…”Stephanie Land
- “I graduated from college in 2014 and started freelance writing. I'd write anything that paid, including filli…”Stephanie Land
- “While I'd been in school, I had a nagging thought that it'd be so much easier to quit all this higher educati…”Stephanie Land
- “As a mother living in poverty, I don't expect my parenting choices to be respected by default.”Stephanie Land
Writing: more sayings
- “People don’t read to enlighten themselves or seek to gain some valuable insight into their own psychology. Pe…”Dermot Davis
- “Writing is like baking cupcakes, you're trying to make something from the raw. Like with cupcakes it's flour…”Emma Shortt
- “Don’t let the world tell you who you are. You get up and you tell the world who you are.”A.D. Posey
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Books by Stephanie Land
Maid
2019