Quotes About Pressure

Mothers, food, love, and career - the four major guilt groups.

Relatedly, an increasingly horizontal structure of learning puts pressure on how learning institutions-schools,

I began to feel the whiteness in the room. If a neutral background color, say white, turned traffic-cone orange everywhere you went, you'd become chronically stressed and your mind would curdle like a slug in salt. That's how I felt. Only I had to pretend that I wasn't seeing traffic-cone orange everywhere.

We have a content problem. They think we have no inner resources. But while I may look impassive, I am frantically paddling my feet underwater, always overcompensating to hide my devouring feelings of inadequacy.

Many working mothers feel guilty about not being at home. And when they are there, they wish it could be perfect. This pressure to make every minute happy puts working parents in a bind when it comes to setting limits and modifying behavior.

women had been sent back home, to manufacture male babies and avoid waste in household expenditures.

Just as a lump of coal, under pressure, could become a diamond bit, Theo had learned to turn his anger into something he could use.

During the past few years many nations have introduced population-control measures, enforced either by economic bribery (as in India, where the payment to a young man for undergoing an irreversible vasectomy is typically a quarter of a year's salary) or by social and governmental pressure (as in China, where early marriage is forbidden and where a third child is barred from receiving governmental welfare benefits).

Going to school, it felt like you were in a meat grinder. It chews you up and pours out this mess that can't function.

In one case the surgeon's peers defended his actions by saying, "Oh, he's got four kids in college."21 When his kids graduate, will he stop pulling out the scalpel so readily? In some for-profit hospitals, administrators set a quota of hysterectomies, knee surgeries, and other operations that surgeons are expected to perform every week, no matter which patients turn up.

There's always going to be that pressure when you're in front of the camera. When you're famous it's just an extreme version of reality and there's a pressure to look a certain way.

The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.

If she is efficient and capable or ambitious, it is assumed that she has failed to find satisfaction as a normal woman, even to the extent of implying a glandular abnormality or sexual perversion.

I know acts and I'm not going to name names but these people sold ten million copies the first time and the second album sells three million and it's considered a failure and they're dropped and that's really a shame.

Marriage was a noble institution, she declared, provided the husband did not take unfair advantage of his superior legal position and the wife did not succumb to the pressures of society and become a nonentity.

When I was in my early 30s and appeared on CNN, Oprah, 20/20 and Entertainment Tonight, my loved ones didn't say, "Good job!" My loved ones said, "The camera adds more than 20 pounds." One detail-oriented aunt said "Not for nothing, but don't wear red. You look like an ad for Red Lobster.

The holidays make her feel as if she's supposed to be in a cuddle, since everybody else suddenly seems paired off, like mittens, slippers or AA batteries.

There's a price to be paid when you raise your daughter to be nice, and she's not the only one who's going to pay it. You'll be right there beside her, trapped by inconvenience, inflexibility and double standards.

No matter what I give, I will always fall short of what I—daughter, mother, wife—am supposed to be.

uma forma de ingenuidade catastrófica: a ideia de que se possa cumprir o seu dever, de que um homem que se precipita na espiral dos deveres possa um dia vir a concluí-los em vez de os ver multiplicar

En nuestra vida cotidiana hay rastros que no podemos explicar y acaso sean totalmente nimios. Sin embargo, su representación mediante un dispositivo de localización... les confiere significado, lo que al parecer exige dar una cantidad tremenda de justificaciones. Esto genera ansiedades, sobre todo en las relaciones íntimas, en las que las personas quizá sientan una mayor presión para explicar cosas que simplemente no son capaces de explicar.

No one who now competes against Tiger Woods does so without wearing a similar competitive mask. Even as they try to forge ahead and

I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.

Or perhaps it's "activist," but on environmental and economic problems, without understanding that pressuring women to have too many children is the biggest cause of environmental distress, and economic courses should start with reproduction, not just production.