Quotes About Emotional labor

With 'Woman Far Walking,' that was as good as it gets and I didn't want to do any more. It was satisfying but really exhausting and I didn't want to go back there any more. It was feeling like a 9-5 job and I didn't feel excited about it.

I remember giving birth in Bromley Hospital annexe. It was painful. Zowie was 8 lb. 8 oz. David was there the whole time. It was the first and only time I saw David cry.

I'm sure I tried being mean at one point, and I don't think it worked. It's too much work.

It's explained that all relationship require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough.

The moment someone asks you to do something you don't have the time or inclination to do is fraught with vulnerability.

Russian work songs can make you suffer.

No matter what anybody thinks about any of them, every record I've done has been done with the same amount of care, anguish, pain, suffering, and joy.

It's inconvenient and it's maddening and it's frustrating and it's sometimes painfully difficult to love another person, even or especially our own child. But this love is our spiritual practice. It is our work and our task down here on this mortal coil. It is not only the oxygen that we offer to our children, it's what makes us able to breathe, ourselves.

As actors, we exhaust ourselves emotionally and physically, which no one sees.

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Not all were joyful tales; we needed to acknowledge that love was not just kisses, smiles, and fulfillment, but also sacrifice, compromise, and hard work.

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling, sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild introduced the notion of "emotional labor.

If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

Real optimism is not the pep talk you give yourself. It is earned through the labor involved in emotional housekeeping.

You have to remember: the wife been home all day cleaning asses and feeding faces. Sometimes the opposite.

A bit of sniffles and men are more work than a brood of babies.

Emotional labor is available to all of us, but it is rarely exploited as a competitive advantage.

My husband works all week, so on weekends, he tells me he doesn't want to "deal with" our sons. I'm amazed that he doesn't notice that I'm basically radiating hatred all the time.

Man must work, she might well have said, and woman must not weep.

El proceso creativo frecuentemente conlleva algún dolor en el esfuerzo por lograr que una concepción dé frutos.

He was thinking it must be tough to be a woman. They were all needs and wants and wishes and the only real trade they had was going to bed.

I've been working like a machine, and feeling like a lost soul.