"I felt held hostage by her illness and by the backward mental health system that once again was incapable of helping our family in crisis."

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Source : Mira Bartok (2011). “The Memory Palace”, p.148, Simon and Schuster

Mira Bartok

#Helping Quotes #Mental Health Quotes #Illness Quotes

“I am a marathon worker and marathon mother. I'll spend three or four days completely swallowed up by work. And if I make it home in time to say good night, I may have one good hour with the girls, maybe a brief family dinner or a family walk with the dog, and then it is back on the computer to prepare for tomorrow's shows.”

Source : "Work-Life Balance? Puh-leaase!" by Mika Brzezinski, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.
“I love inventing worlds and characters and settings and scenarios.”
“I see the underlying economy as being very healthy,”
“The essence of Chess is thinking about what Chess is.”
“Richard Dawkins is arguably England's most pious atheist.”

Source : Simon Conway Morris (2003). “Life's Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe”, p.315, Cambridge University Press
“Think twice before burdening a friend with a secret.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home.”
“Start with the assumption that the best way to do something is not the way it's being done right now.”

Source : Twitter post from Apr 13, 2013

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