Quotes About Emotional labor

Al nostro lavoro si viene avendo già pianto a casa.

The first person who ever told me that happiness was work was this manic-depressive artist I knew when I was in my 20s. I was like, 'What are you talking about? Happiness just happens. That's even the root of that word. How could it be work?'

Male) culture was (and is) parasitical, feeding on the emotional strength of women without reciprocity.

Your heart beats hotly for chilling work!

It's no good trying to fool yourself about love. You can't fall into it like a soft job, without dirtying up your hands. It takes muscle and guts. And if you can't bear the thought of messing up your nice, clean soul, you'd better give up the whole idea of life and become a saint.

My mission is to suffer for all those who suffer without knowing it. I must pay for them, expiate their unconscious, their luck to be ignorant of how unhappy they are.

But for a song like 'Paprika,' I typically feel like I need to experience anguish a lot of the time to feel like I've put in enough hard work.

Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it.

I always say to people that working full time and being a mom is probably the hardest job, because as a mom you think about your child 24/7.

Loving you is a full-time job. It's a great job, don't get me wrong. It's the best job in the universe. But it's not easy.

I very much faced my mother's death with hard, arduous and time-consuming labor. The more I would do, the less I would feel.

Men who are afraid to feel must keep women around to do their feeling for them while dismissing us for the same supposedly inferior capacity to feel deeply. But in this way also, men deny themselves their own essential humanity, becoming trapped in dependency and fear.

Men who are afraid to feel must keep women around to do their feeling for them while dismissing us for the same supposedly "inferior" capacity to feel deeply.

She lifted her head. "It's easier," she said, slowly, "to be angry on someone else's behalf than on my own. And yet I find I have a well of anger in me, that I have been filling for years from my own hurts. If I spill it out in defense of another, I can deny it's mine.

My mom worked as a housekeeper, and I saw her relationship with her employers - how on the one hand she spent more time with these women than with a lot of her friends, and how in certain ways they were friends. But then they weren't.

Poetas, no perdamos el tiempo, trabajemos, que al corazón le llega poca sangre.

I need therapy after writing. It's like leaking blood from a stone. It's brutally difficult but worth it.

When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture.

In the end, no matter how much you love your work, your work will not love you back.

You shouldn't have to pay for your love with your bones and your flesh.

The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.

Women work and feel like they have to take care of so many details. Sometimes they don't get much help from their husbands.

We make a contract within ourselves as actors or directors or writers about how much of ourselves we let into projects. You can actually figure out before you work on something how much blood you will have to let emotionally.

Writing never comes easy. The difference between Page 2 and Page Nothing is the difference between life and death.