68 Quotes by Mika Brzezinski

If we can’t quantify and communicate our value with confidence, the achievements of the tremendous women before us will have all been for nothing.

A fundamental lesson on being fired: Never lie about it. People will know what you’re saying is a cover-up for how you really feel – embarrassed, discouraged, and afraid.

We have to unclutter our brains from worries that maybe people don’t like us. Women tend to worry about popularity; it doesn’t matter if they like you. They need to respect you. They need to show that respect for you in your pay check. And that needs to be okay.

I’d been fired by CBS News in a semipublic way, and as the months went by, there was a perception that I was damaged goods.

I’ve worked with Ed Bradley, Dan Rather and lots of different local news anchors.

My salary situation at ‘Morning Joe’ wasn’t right. I made five attempts to fix it, then realized I’d made the same mistake every time: I apologised for asking.

I was fired at the pinnacle of my career, on my 39th birthday. And in the year that followed, I learned that there are many psychological phases of being ‘let go.’

On ‘Morning Joe’ I can say what I think, be my sometimes unorthodox self, have fun, yet be serious as well.

We come from a mindset that suggests diets are temporary tortures we must endure,” says Debb. And when we’re done, “then we have permission to backslide into old habits, as if we were entitled to a reward for our sacrifice.