Brigid Schulte Quotes

I have trashed the to-do list. To help my brain...

I think that was probably one of the biggest revelations, is leisure is really in the eyes of the beholder...

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

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

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

Because this is how it feels to live my life: scattered, fragmented, and exhausting.

Our perception of time is indeed our reality.

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

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

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

I'm a big believer in education. If people learn the truth, they'll see the benefit if they have gender neutral policies.

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 vast majority of people in America, I couldn't take unpaid leave.

The best thing a society can do is ensure its children are taken care of.

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 of power - the prejudice is pushing women to go home.

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