Eye of the beholder Quotes by Brigid Schulte

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

— Brigid Schulte

“If we don’t feel like we have leisure, Robinson maintains, it’s entirely our own fault. “Time is a smokescreen. And it’s a convenient excuse,”…

— Brigid Schulte

“In the Middle Ages, the sin of sloth had two forms,” he said. “One was paralysis, the inability to do anything—what we would see…

— Brigid Schulte

Busyness has become such a social value that we will even create it, we will create that sense of breathlessness because we think that's…

— Brigid Schulte

“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…

— Brigid Schulte

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

— Brigid Schulte

“Eight in ten Britons report being too busy to eat dessert, even though four in ten say dessert is better than sex.”

— Brigid Schulte

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

— Brigid Schulte

The more armed we are with information about the seduction of technology, the more we can build systems to better deal with it. I…

— Brigid Schulte

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…

— Brigid Schulte

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