Wanted: Toddler's Personal Assistant: How Nannying for the 1% Taught Me about the Myths of Equality, Motherhood, and Upward Mobility in America

by Stephanie Kiser

“It means that when someone isn’t sure about something you want from them you have to use your words, be patient, and show them how it’s done. Otherwise, you will hurt their feelings and they might not want to do a project with you next time. Okay?”

He was found late one evening with a still-burning cigarette in the ashtray and a Bud Light on the nightstand. At least he died surrounded by his loved ones.

But a person in East Hampton with a driveway full of automobiles has surely done well for themselves. At the very top of the list of wealth indicators is something far costlier than cars: children.

Sometimes it’s easier to take care of others than it is to take care of yourself.

The thing I would later come to realize is that women needing validation from men is a universal problem that affects every class.

It’s a constant tug-of-war between being ashamed to be doing this job at all and feeling pride in doing it well.

“She talks to you because you are white.”