Nobody ever asks a man how he gets stuff done. Nobody asks a man how he finds balance.
I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
The problem, thus, is not whether or not women are to combine marriage and motherhood with work or career but how they are to do so--concomitantly in a two-role continuous pattern or sequentially in a pattern involving job or career discontinuities.
Nobody can refuse a person who comes and asks for a job. Nobody can refuse a poor man when he goes and asks for food. Nobody can stop any Indian if he asks a question of his government. This is what the Congress party and the UPA have done over the last 10 years.
Life is a mission, not a career. A career is a profession, a mission is a cause. A career asks, What's in it for me? A mission asks, How can I make a difference?
My father said, Politics asks the question: Is it expedient? Vanity asks: Is it popular? But conscience asks: Is it right?
Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father.
Nobody ever asks me about my lyrics.
Why do so many marriages fail? Because nobody gets taught how to be married. We're not taught how to pick a mate, or why to pick a mate; we don't know how to manage our emotions once we're in a marriage; we don't know how to resolve marital conflict. Married people have never been taught why they or their spouses feel the way they do and act the way they do. Nobody has ever taught us the fundamentals.
Men have to ask, 'How can I combine career and family?'
I envy poets because nobody ever asks them if it's true or false.
If you lose a game, everyone asks why this player didn't play. If we win, nobody asks.
Nobody ever worked as hard as my father. My father averaged maybe four hours of sleep at night, and when you're a kid, you don't realize that.
The East German manages to combine a Teutonic capacity for bureauracy with a Russian capacity for infinite delay
What's the point of wearing your favorite rocket ship underpants if nobody ever asks to see 'em?
I stand here as the mother of three children, who knows firsthand how difficult it can be to combine family and a career.