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“Most of my friendships had faded over the last year because I’d isolated myself and hidden from the embarrassment of my daily life.”

Poverty Isolated Embarrassment Friendships

Book:Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive

Source: Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive

“When people think of food stamps they don't envision someone like me, someone plain faced and white, someone like the girl they'd known in highschool, someone who'd been quiet but nice, someone like a neighbor, someone like them. Maybe that made them too nervous about their own situation. Maybe they saw in me the chance of their own fragile circumstances, that with one lost job, one divorce, they'd be in the same place as me.”

Book:Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive

Source: Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive

“Despite being wealthy and having the two story houses of our American dreams, the marbled sink bathrooms, the offices with bay windows looking out at the water, their lives still lacked something. I became fascinated by the things hidden in dark corners and the self help books for hope. Maybe they just had longer hallways and bigger closets to hide the things that scared them.”

Poverty Wealthy

Book:Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive

Source: Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive

“Being poor, living in poverty, seemed a lot like probation - the crime being a lack of means to survive.”

Poverty Real Life

Book:Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive

Source: Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive

“Every single parent teetering on poverty does this. We work, we love, we do. And the stress of it all, the exhaustion, leaves us hollowed. Scraped out. Ghosts of our former selves. That's how I felt for those few days after the accident, like I wasn't fully connected to the ground when I walked. I knew that at any moment, a breeze could come and blow me away.”

Author:Stephanie Land

“My parents had moved on leaving me emotionally orphaned. I vowed to never put the same amount of physical and emotional space between Mia and me.”

Loneliness Parenting Adulthood

Book:Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive

Source: Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive

“Katie had the same hard look of determination in her eyes that I did and knew the life of grasping tightly to your dreams, and holding onto them wherever they took you.”

Inspiration Class Writer

Author:Stephanie Land

“I wondered if maybe you and I could spend some time together," I asked, "just the two of us?" "Steph, I just don't think that would be appropriate." "Why?" I asked, straightening. "I mean if you want to spend some time with me, then you'll have to accept that William will be there too," she said. ~~~~~ This visit, I wished to gain back the lost relationship with my mother, but not just as someone who could help care for Mia. I craved a Mom, someone I could trust, who would accept me unconditionally despite my living in a homeless shelter. If I had a mom to talk to, maybe she could explain what was happening to me, or make it easier, and help me not see myself as a failure. It was hard, admitting that level of desperation, vying for the attention of your own mother.”

Parents Parenthood Adulthood

Author:Stephanie Land