Frazzled Woman Quotes & Sayings

As long as the "woman's work" that some men do is socially devalued, as long as it is defined as woman's work, as long as it's tacked onto a "regular" work day, men who share it are likely to develop the same jagged mouth and frazzled hair as the coffee-mug mom. The image of the new man is like the image of the supermom: it obscures the strain. — Arlie Russell Hochschild

Me. You're here for me, to love me, live life with me, be with me. If you're too tired, I'll carry you through every day until you can walk on your own again. — Jewel E. Ann

Accept the gift and honor the giver. — Mark Deklin

Friends, I'm angry about what's happening in politics today! Why is it wrong to ask the wealthiest people and most profitable corporations to pay their fair share? — Richard Trumka

I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing it. — Ann Patchett

I am thinking about the way that life can be so slippery; the way that a twelve-year-old girl looking into the mirror to count freckles reaches out toward herself and that reflection has turned into that of a woman on her wedding day, righting her veil. And how, when that bride blinks, she reopens her eyes to see a frazzled young mother trying to get lipstick on straight for the parent/teacher conference that starts in three minutes. And how after that young woman bends down to retrieve the wild-haired doll her daughter has left on the bathroom floor, she rises up to a forty-seven-year-old, looking into the mirror to count age spots. — Elizabeth Berg

However, the young woman claimed to not know exactly what it was she had done that this person had seen. With the cops earlier, she insisted she had done nothing. The police on the scene weren't convinced. Kayla could tell by the side looks they gave each other. Honestly, she wasn't convinced either. Jessie was holding something back. Desperately, she tried to soothe the young woman's frazzled nerves in the hope that she would open up to her. Attempts at light conversation were rewarded with short answers, followed — Phoebe T. Eggli

Yesterday I was clever and tried to change the world. Today I am wise and try to change myself. — Rumi

The person you call 'President Obama and I frankly refuse to call him that ... at the moment, he is somebody who is kind of an 'alleged usurper' who is alleged to be someone who is occupying that office without constitutional warrant to do so. — Alan Keyes

He who is in love with himself has no rivals. — Benjamin Franklin