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Top 25 Brigid Schulte Quotes (2025 Update)

Brigid Schulte Quote: “Our perception of time is indeed our reality.”

1. “Our perception of time is indeed our reality.”

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Brigid Schulte Quote: “As work weeks get longer and leisure time shrinks, people are becoming sicker, more distracted, absent, unproductive, and less innovative.”

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

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Brigid Schulte Quote: “Busyness is now the social norm that people feel they must conform to, Burnett says, or risk being outcasts.”

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

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Brigid Schulte Quote: “The best thing a society can do is ensure its children are taken care of.”

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

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Brigid Schulte Quote: “I take solace in knowing that some of the steps I took can help other people.”

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

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Brigid Schulte Quote: “I’m a big believer in education. If people learn the truth, they’ll see the benefit if they have gender neutral policies.”

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

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Brigid Schulte Quote: “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.”

7. “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.”

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Brigid Schulte Quote: “Because this is how it feels to live my life: scattered, fragmented, and exhausting.”

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

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Brigid Schulte Quote: “A gift, like a good friend drawing a personal road map out of the crazy busy swirl of our overloaded lives.”

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

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Brigid Schulte Quote: “What often matters more than the activity we’re doing at a moment in time is how we feel about it.”

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

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Brigid Schulte Quote: “As long as you’re pushing men to stay at work, you’re pushing women to stay home.”

11. “As long as you’re pushing men to stay at work, you’re pushing women to stay home.”

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Brigid Schulte Quote: “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.”

12. “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.”

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Brigid Schulte Quote: “The United States is the only advanced economy with no paid parental leave for either mothers or fathers.”

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

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Brigid Schulte Quote: “I have trashed the to-do list to help my brain.”

14. “I have trashed the to-do list to help my brain.”

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Brigid Schulte Quote: “I’m optimistic. I really believe people in power want to do the right thing.”

15. “I’m optimistic. I really believe people in power want to do the right thing.”

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Brigid Schulte Quote: “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.”

16. “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.”

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Brigid Schulte Quote: “I think that was one of the biggest revelations is that leisure is really in the eyes of the beholder.”

17. “I think that was one of the biggest revelations is that leisure is really in the eyes of the beholder.”

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Brigid Schulte Quote: “We work to have leisure, on which happiness depends. – Aristotle.”

18. “We work to have leisure, on which happiness depends. – Aristotle.”

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Brigid Schulte Quote: “The World Health Organization found that Americans live in the richest country, but they are also the most anxious.2 The average high school kid today experiences the same level of anxiety as the average psychiatric patient of the 1950s.”

19. “The World Health Organization found that Americans live in the richest country, but they are also the most anxious.2 The average high school kid today experiences the same level of anxiety as the average psychiatric patient of the 1950s.”

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Brigid Schulte Quote: “In his studies, he usually finds men do one and a half things at a time. Whereas women, particularly mothers, do about five things at once. And, at the same time, they are caught up in contaminated time, thinking about and planning two or three things more. So they are never fully experiencing their external or their internal worlds.”

20. “In his studies, he usually finds men do one and a half things at a time. Whereas women, particularly mothers, do about five things at once. And, at the same time, they are caught up in contaminated time, thinking about and planning two or three things more. So they are never fully experiencing their external or their internal worlds.”

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Brigid Schulte Quote: “To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work. – Mary Oliver.”

21. “To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work. – Mary Oliver.”

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Brigid Schulte Quote: “True, the United States boasts enviable rates of economic growth and total productivity, but that’s due in large part to the sheer amount of time Americans put in on the job, working long and extreme hours. Measuring productivity per hours worked, on the other hand, has in recent years put the United States behind such countries as France, Ireland, Luxemburg, the Netherlands, and Norway.”

22. “True, the United States boasts enviable rates of economic growth and total productivity, but that’s due in large part to the sheer amount of time Americans put in on the job, working long and extreme hours. Measuring productivity per hours worked, on the other hand, has in recent years put the United States behind such countries as France, Ireland, Luxemburg, the Netherlands, and Norway.”

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Brigid Schulte Quote: “The Nobel Prize-winning economist James Heckman argues that investing in high-quality early learning will yield a rate of return of 6 to 10 percent per year per child – higher than historic stock market returns – in higher academic achievement, greater productivity in the workforce, and fewer drains on society.74.”

23. “The Nobel Prize-winning economist James Heckman argues that investing in high-quality early learning will yield a rate of return of 6 to 10 percent per year per child – higher than historic stock market returns – in higher academic achievement, greater productivity in the workforce, and fewer drains on society.74.”

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Brigid Schulte Quote: “Time studies find that a mother, especially one who works outside the home for pay, is among the most time-poor humans on the planet, especially single mothers, weighed down not only by role overload but also what sociologists call “task density” – the intense responsibility she bears and the multitude of jobs she performs in each of those roles.6.”

24. “Time studies find that a mother, especially one who works outside the home for pay, is among the most time-poor humans on the planet, especially single mothers, weighed down not only by role overload but also what sociologists call “task density” – the intense responsibility she bears and the multitude of jobs she performs in each of those roles.6.”

— Brigid Schulte

Brigid Schulte Quote: “The way you live your days is the way you live your life. – Annie Dillard.”

25. “The way you live your days is the way you live your life. – Annie Dillard.”

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Brigid Schulte Quote: “What this intensive mothering culture tells us is valuable is at discord with what really is valuable: Love your kids. Keep them safe. Accept them as they are. Then get out of their way.”

26. “What this intensive mothering culture tells us is valuable is at discord with what really is valuable: Love your kids. Keep them safe. Accept them as they are. Then get out of their way.”

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Brigid Schulte Quote: “Time, I was learning, was not only money, as the saying goes. It was power. When you are overwhelmed, when you can neither predict nor control the forces shaping your time, when you don’t even have time to think about why you’re overwhelmed, much less what to do about it, you are powerless.”

27. “Time, I was learning, was not only money, as the saying goes. It was power. When you are overwhelmed, when you can neither predict nor control the forces shaping your time, when you don’t even have time to think about why you’re overwhelmed, much less what to do about it, you are powerless.”

— Brigid Schulte

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