Quotes from Mika Brzezinski

I try my best to be extremely disciplined about my diet.

I am up at 3:30, reading the op-ed pages and getting ready to be on the air by 6 A.M. on the set of 'Morning Joe ' and after three hours of TV and two hours on the radio, it is only 12 noon.

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.

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

I realize that of all people, I am no expert on parenting or marriage.

The needs of babies and toddlers were constant and drained the life out my sense of self and my family's relationship with each other.

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

Women face enough pressures and challenges in a workplace that is still depressingly biased against a female's success. Add to that, the fact that the very thing many women I know find most rewarding (having kids) is now frowned upon.