Mika Brzezinski > Quotes

“Knowing your value means owning your success. Owning your success means acknowledging your achievements. By acknowledging achievements you build confidence.”
― Mika Brzezinski, Knowing Your Value: Women, Money, and Getting What You're Worth

“We come from a mindset that suggests diets are temporary tortures we must endure,” says Debb. And when we’re done, “then we have permission to backslide into old habits, as if we were entitled to a reward for our sacrifice.”
― Mika Brzezinski, Obsessed: America's Food Addiction -- and My Own

“I worked initially on the assignment desk, and I did my share of “beat checks.” I can still tell you the phone numbers for the Hartford police, the Connecticut State Police, the Bristol, Manchester, Avon, and New London departments, and many, many more.”
― Mika Brzezinski, All Things At Once

“Meanwhile, I have been reminded that weight is about a lot more than dress size and how I look. My weight was stealing my life from me, piece by piece. Refocusing on health, instead of size and looks, has helped me recognize that I have to make a commitment for the long haul. That’s the only way. Dieting does not work. I know, you’ve read that before, but it’s really true. I should know, because that’s what I’ve done all my life. I dieted my way up to weighing 256 pounds. No more. This time I am remaking my life.”
― Mika Brzezinski, Obsessed: America's Food Addiction -- and My Own

“Cooking from scratch seems to have become a hobby for a small group of people and a chore that the rest of us no longer bother with.”
― Mika Brzezinski, Obsessed: America's Food Addiction -- and My Own

“We women think that we will work very very hard ... and then money will come.” —CAROL SMITH”
― Mika Brzezinski, Knowing Your Value: Women, Money, and Getting What You're Worth

“At some point in your life, you have got to know your value. It's your job to feel it and communicate it effectively. A strong sense of self-worth will serve you well in your relationship with your employer, and in any other relationship.”
― Mika Brzezinski, Knowing Your Value: Women, Money, and Getting What You're Worth

“Harvard Business School’s Charting Your Path, a conference for women at a transitional point in their careers.”
― Mika Brzezinski, Comeback Careers: Stronger, Wiser, Better

“When meals are more “grab and go,” we end up doing a lot more grazing and snacking. “We don’t take time to eat,” said Lisa Powell. “We stuff in a sandwich at our desk and think we had lunch. We’ve lost that connection; we’ve just lost contact with the whole experience of eating. As a result, I think we’re not satisfied, so we’re looking for more and more and more and more.”
― Mika Brzezinski, Obsessed: America's Food Addiction -- and My Own

“wouldn’t any healthy man really prefer to be involved with a woman—either personally or professionally—who is driven by her true thoughts, feelings, beliefs, and desires instead of her fears?”
― Mika Brzezinski, Know Your Value: Women, Money, and Getting What You're Worth