21 Quotes by Brigid Schulte

You had to bake your own bread and look like a Vogue model

The way you live your days is the way you live your life

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?

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

Our perception of time is indeed our reality.

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

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

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.

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