Brigid Schulte famous quotes

I have trashed the to-do list to help my brain.
-- Brigid Schulte

#Brain #Lists #Helping

The United States is the only advanced economy with no paid parental leave for either mothers or fathers.
-- Brigid Schulte

#Mother #Father #United States

I think that was one of the biggest revelations is that leisure is really in the eyes of the beholder.
-- Brigid Schulte

#Eye #Thinking #Leisure

As long as you're pushing men to stay at work, you're pushing women to stay home.
-- Brigid Schulte

#Home #Men #Long

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

#People #Benefits #Gender

The best thing a society can do is ensure its children are taken care of.
-- Brigid Schulte

#Children #Taken #Care

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.
-- Brigid Schulte

#Mother #Children #Father

I'm optimistic. I really believe people in power want to do the right thing.
-- Brigid Schulte

#Believe #Optimistic #People

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.
-- Brigid Schulte

#Home #Men #Prejudice

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.
-- Brigid Schulte

#Home #Thinking #America

I take solace in knowing that some of the steps I took can help other people.
-- Brigid Schulte

#Helping Others #Knowing #People

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

#Crazy #Good Friend #Drawing

What if not just women, but both men and women, worked smart, more flexible schedules? What if the workplace itself was more fluid than the rigid and narrow ladder to success of the ideal worker? And what if both men and women became responsible for raising children and managing the home, sharing work, love, and play? Could everyone then live whole lives?
-- Brigid Schulte

#Children #Smart #Home

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

#Matter #Moments #Moments In Time

Because this is how it feels to live my life: scattered, fragmented, and exhausting.
-- Brigid Schulte

#Living My Life #Feels

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

#People #Risk #Outcast

Our perception of time is indeed our reality.
-- Brigid Schulte

#Reality #Perception

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

#People #Leisure #Becoming