Top 30 Mika Brzezinski Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Knowing your value means owning your success. Owning your success means acknowledging your achievements. By acknowledging achievements you build confidence.”

— Mika Brzezinski

2. “There’s always more money to be made.”

— Mika Brzezinski

3. “Don’t apologize for asking for what you deserve.”

— Mika Brzezinski

4. “Everyday I find myself reminding women around me to know their value. I also have to remind myself.”

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5. “I suffered from a mild case of postpartum depression after my second child and the physical challenge of maintaining an overnight shift at CBS, a marriage, and two in diapers made the symptoms worse and everyone in the house paid the price.”

— Mika Brzezinski

6. “Often I feel like I can run forever. If someone told me I had to run for 10 hours, I probably could.”

— Mika Brzezinski

7. “A bad boyfriend is someone you give everything to – you live with him, cook for him, sleep with him – thinking he is going to marry you and then he doesn’t. When you are giving your all to a job and not getting credit, your job is a bad boyfriend.”

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8. “We have to stop judging people who are struggling with their weight.”

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9. “Don’t make your journey through life harder by placing rules on yourself like, ‘I can’t get married till I get promoted to your dream job.’”

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10. “Finding a job is hard enough, but have you ever considered the odds and the challenges of finding a good man?”

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11. “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.”

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12. “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.”

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

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14. “I think women have a hard time not apologizing their way into negotiations. We tend to back in to these conversations in a self-deprecating and ultimately self-defeating way.”

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15. “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.”

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16. “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.”

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17. “I worked initially on the assignment desk, and I did my share of “beat checks.” I can still tell you the phone numbers for the Hartford police, the Connecticut State Police, the Bristol, Manchester, Avon, and New London departments, and many, many more.”

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18. “Being unemployed has so many real and palpable ramifications but there are also psychological side effects which you can only understand if youve truly lived through it.”

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19. “I am not afraid to say my relationship with my man is important, even vital, to who I am as a person.”

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

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21. “I try my best to be extremely disciplined about my diet.”

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22. “My family was always active, and our thing was family walks. Not walks around the block, but more like eight-mile hikes up mountains.”

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23. “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.”

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24. “The needs of babies and toddlers were constant and drained the life out my sense of self and my familys relationship with each other.”

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25. “After being let go from CBS and looking for a year for work, I will never catch myself complaining about being too busy.”

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26. “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.’”

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27. “I have mugs of hot water every morning because the studio is cold, and also because it makes my throat sound clearer.”

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28. “My parents found me very difficult to educate.”

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29. “Women play into each other’s weaknesses.”

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30. “Why don’t these companies making big profits just pay people better than $14 an hour? It’s kind of simple. When you’re making record profits, why not? I don’t get it.”

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31. “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.”

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32. “Despite my professional experience, the fifteen-hour workdays, and a successful new show that I had helped build, MSNBC was still refusing to pay me what I was worth.”

— Mika Brzezinski