Joan

“Whether on paper or in my mind, the problems I had to deal with first—the car repair, the court date, the empty cupboards—went at the top, on the left. The next pressing issue went next to it, on the right. I’d focus on one problem at a time, working left to right, top to bottom.”
― Stephanie Land, Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive

“We work, we love, we do. And the stress of it all, the exhaustion, leaves us hollowed. Scraped out. Ghosts of our former selves.”
― Stephanie Land, Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive

“wanted this book to highlight a neurodiverse heroine who happens to be on medication and in therapy falling in love and thriving. I wanted to show the messy, heavy parts of her life alongside the moments that sweep her off her feet. And I wanted a hero who’d love her through her dark days, not despite them—because to me, that is the most romantic thing of all.”
― Rachel Lynn Solomon, Weather Girl

“Like I had been in the wrong for leaving a man who threatened me. I knew there were countless women out there in the same situation as I had been.”
― Stephanie Land, Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive