Katie

“It's crazy how lonely it is to be in a family.”
― Mary H.K. Choi, Yolk

“We were expected to live off minimum wage, to work several jobs at varying hours, to afford basic needs while fighting for safe places to leave our children. Somehow nobody saw the work; they saw only the results of living a life that constantly crushed you with its impossibility. It seemed like no matter how much I tried to prove otherwise, “poor” was always associated with dirty.”
― Stephanie Land, Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive

“demonstrates quite clearly Swift’s maxim that you cannot reason someone out of a position they did not reason themselves into.”
― Adam Rutherford, How to Argue With a Racist: History, Science, Race and Reality

“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.”
― Stephanie Land, Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive