Stephanie Land

I expected college to feel like a major accomplishment. I walked across the stage, eight months pregnant with my almost seven-year-old daughter…

— Stephanie Land

I don't think there is a true cure for PTSD.

— Stephanie Land

I signed my first book contract without paying much attention to what it said. I didn't know at the time that the…

— Stephanie Land

My family, for generations, has struggled through the effects of working blue-collar jobs long past the age of retirement.

— Stephanie Land

I've seen, and experienced, the anxiety of not being able to find work for months on end.

— Stephanie Land

Remember The Nothing? It was a gigantic, black storm from 'The Neverending Story' that fed on fear and doubt and sadness and…

— Stephanie Land

I'm a huge believer in universal childcare.

— Stephanie Land

There is no planning in a life of fighting to keep a roof over your head. It's pure survival.

— Stephanie Land

We need leaders who are able to vividly remember how it feels to experience hardship, trauma and pain, who make us feel…

— Stephanie Land

I see my self-identity in the same way I see most things: a list, in greatest to least importance. I've found I…

— Stephanie Land

As a mom raising two kids on my own, my life requires a certain kind of constant juggling that is hard to…

— Stephanie Land

Tinder makes it obvious that I'm not alone in being single and that there are plenty of single parents looking for a…

— Stephanie Land

If you work a job outside of the hours a daycare that accepts government grants operates, if you are self-employed or you…

— Stephanie Land

The small things that make Christmas magical are the things children will remember. It doesn't matter what they open on Christmas morning,…

— Stephanie Land

We need to look marginalized people in our community in the eye and listen to their stories of struggle, heartache and impossibility.

— Stephanie Land

It didn't take me long to go from financial stability to fearing homelessness.

— Stephanie Land

As a poor person and someone who now writes extensively about social and economic justice, I've often noticed a lack of a…

— Stephanie Land

I had a crazy amount of success as a writer, which isn't normal by any means.

— Stephanie Land

If we can somehow start to remove shame from struggle, if we can truly see people and care for them as our…

— Stephanie Land

I don't believe life begins at conception.

— Stephanie Land

Our main purpose of writing is so we don't feel alone and that others don't feel alone.

— Stephanie Land

When I saw the letter of acceptance for Snap - the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, popularly known as food stamps - it…

— Stephanie Land

I, for the most part, subsist on very little, high-quality, dense-in-nutrition food.

— Stephanie Land

I have a lot in common with most Trump supporters. I'm white, I live in a rural area that is predominantly white…

— Stephanie Land

You need to listen to people in your own communities and you especially need to listen to people of color.

— Stephanie Land