Brigid Schulte Quotes

#1. As long as you're pushing men to stay at work, you're pushing women to stay home.

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#2. A gift, like a good friend drawing a personal road map out of the crazy busy swirl of our overloaded lives.

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#3. I'm optimistic. I really believe people in power want to do the right thing.

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#4. The World Health Organization found that Americans live in the richest country, but they are also the most anxious.2 The average high school kid today experiences the same level of anxiety as the average psychiatric patient of the 1950s.

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#5. Our perception of time is indeed our reality.

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#6. What this intensive mothering culture tells us is valuable is at discord with what really is valuable: Love your kids. Keep them safe. Accept them as they are. Then get out of their way.

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#7. I have trashed the to-do list to help my brain.

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#8. As work weeks get longer and leisure time shrinks, people are becoming sicker, more distracted, absent, unproductive, and less innovative.

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#9. But the majority of mothers work - and are responsible for taking care of the kids and home. And more fathers are spending more time doing child care and housework, and still working long hours. That work-life conflict is weighing on everybody.

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#10. The stuff of life never ends. That is life. You will never clear your plate so you can finally allow yourself to get to the good stuff. So you have to decide. What do you want to accomplish in this life?

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#11. We work to have leisure, on which happiness depends. - Aristotle

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#12. The United States is the only advanced economy that doesn't guarantee workers paid time off. Nearly one-quarter of all American workers get no paid vacation,

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#13. I'm a big believer in education. If people learn the truth, they'll see the benefit if they have gender neutral policies.

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#14. It's incredibly painful to think back to the time I had to come back to work. I was so, so needed at home. Like the vast majority of people in America, I couldn't take unpaid leave.

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#15. The brainless rushing about makes us feel time starved, which, he writes "does not result in death, but rather, as ancient Athenian philosophers observed, in never beginning to live."6

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#16. Multitasking makes you stupid - dumber than getting stoned.

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#17. The best thing a society can do is ensure its children are taken care of.

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#18. The prejudice is against men and women - assuming men stay at work. That's the reason why we don't have enough women in the halls of power - the prejudice is pushing women to go home.

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#19. Researchers have found that the way people feel about the stress in their lives is a far more powerful predictor of their general health - whether they're more likely to be depressed, anxious, smoke cigarettes, or overeat - than any other measure.

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#20. I take solace in knowing that some of the steps I took can help other people.

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#21. What often matters more than the activity we're doing at a moment in time is how we feel about it.

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#22. I think that was one of the biggest revelations is that leisure is really in the eyes of the beholder.

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#23. Because this is how it feels to live my life: scattered, fragmented, and exhausting.

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#24. Busyness is now the social norm that people feel they must conform to, Burnett says, or risk being outcasts.

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