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#FierceFeb #SheWorksHardForTheMoney 🥄I love to cook but I have never wanted to do it professionally (much as I love to read about women who do) because of how hard the work is. These five books are about women in the food industry who work hard for the money--from pastry chef, to farmer, to restauranteur, to apprentice chef, to a stint in culinary school. (The top two are still in my #TBR stacks & the bottom three I have read & enjoyed. )🥄📚👍

Kimberly and her mother arrived from Hong King to NYC. The days are long and the work is endless. Her mother couldn‘t possibly keep up with her work at the factory alone, so Kimberly shuffled between middle school and the sweatshop, helping as much as she can.
The novel takes you behind the stereotypes of Asian immigrants, it looks at the immigrant experience of two Chinese women in the 1980s.
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#SheWorksHardForTheMoney Mia Warren is one of the central characters in this great book. She is an artist and is one of the hardest working characters in the books I‘ve read recently-ish ! She is so completely committed to her work which I always think is really impressive. 💚💚💚 #FierceFeb

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Taraji is just badass in my opinion! To pay for her collage she worked as a secretary at The Pentagon and nights as a waitress on a cruise ship! I recently ordered this book and can‘t wait to read it! I usually don‘t enjoy memoirs, but like I said she‘s bad ass and I want to know more! I really want to see her new movie Proud Mary! And I love Empire!

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Fanny Fern, pen name for Sara Willis, newspaper writer and feminist, published the novel,Ruth Hall in 1855. When widowed, Ruth was abandoned by monied family members,forced to house her 5 year old with abusive grandparents,earned a pittance through free lance writing,& dined on milk & bread with her 2yr old. Eventually she gains attention& money with her pieces empathizing with the plight of the poor & women.#sheworkshardforthemoney.

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Maeve Kerrigan works very hard for her money in these books!!

Margot learns quickly that she has to sell and work everything she‘s got to make sure her sister, Thandie, doesn‘t have to the same. #Sheworkshardforthemoney so Thandie can go to school and be everything Margot isn‘t.

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Diane Arbus was a working commercial photographer while still taking care of her husband and children as the times demanded. She eventually broke out of her traditional roles to become an artist, taking portraits of people at the margins of society. There's also an excellent film, "Fur," that offers an imagined account of her finding her artistic voice (from the director of "Secretary " ?).

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