Brigid Schulte Quotes

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• 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…
• What often matters more than the activity we're doing at a moment in time is how we feel about it.
• Because this is how it feels to live my life: scattered, fragmented, and exhausting.
• Busyness is now the social norm that people feel they must conform to, Burnett says, or risk being outcasts.
• Our perception of time is indeed our reality.
• As work weeks get longer and leisure time shrinks, people are becoming sicker, more distracted, absent, unproductive, and less innovative.
• I have trashed the to-do list to help my brain.
• I think that was one of the biggest revelations is that leisure is really in the eyes of the beholder.
• The United States is the only advanced economy with no paid parental leave for either mothers or fathers.
• As long as you're pushing men to stay at work, you're pushing women to stay home.
• I'm a big believer in education. If people learn the truth, they'll see the benefit if they have gender neutral policies.
• The best thing a society can do is ensure its children are taken care of.
• But the majority of mothers work - and are responsible for taking care of the kids and home. And more fathers are spending more time…
• I'm optimistic. I really believe people in power want to do the right thing.
• 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…
• 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…
• I take solace in knowing that some of the steps I took can help other people.

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