Top 35 Mika Brzezinski Quotes

I love tomatoes, and they’re so good for you.

Don’t make your journey through life harder by placing rules on yourself like, ‘I can’t get married till I get promoted to your dream job.’

I have mugs of hot water every morning because the studio is cold, and also because it makes my throat sound clearer.

For me, having it all doesn’t mean having the corner office at work and a penthouse at home if there aren’t kids running around as I’m trying to cook my husband something special.

My family was always active, and our thing was family walks. Not walks around the block, but more like eight-mile hikes up mountains.

I always start my day with a red-eye misto – two shots, extra hot, extra foam – from Starbucks.

I was terrible at interviews, lost in my own loss of identity and struggling at home as a wife and mother. It was a household that preferred me working, which threw me off completely.

After being let go from CBS and looking for a year for work, I will never catch myself complaining about being too busy.

Women face enough pressures and challenges in a workplace that is still depressingly biased against a female’s success. Add to that, the fact that the very thing many women I know find most rewarding (having kids) is now frowned upon.

A bad boyfriend is someone you give everything to – you live with him, cook for him, sleep with him – thinking he is going to marry you and then he doesn’t. When you are giving your all to a job and not getting credit, your job is a bad boyfriend.

I think women have a hard time not apologizing their way into negotiations. We tend to back in to these conversations in a self-deprecating and ultimately self-defeating way.

I was fired at the pinnacle of my career, on my 39th birthday. And in the year that followed, I learned that there are many psychological phases of being ‘let go.’

A fundamental lesson on being fired: Never lie about it. People will know what you’re saying is a cover-up for how you really feel – embarrassed, discouraged, and afraid.

We have to unclutter our brains from worries that maybe people don’t like us. Women tend to worry about popularity; it doesn’t matter if they like you. They need to respect you. They need to show that respect for you in your pay check. And that needs to be okay.

Being unemployed has so many real and palpable ramifications but there are also psychological side effects which you can only understand if you’ve truly lived through it.

I did something a lot of people will have to do in this economy if they want to eventually land their dream job. I turned down an offer to take a high-paying position in another field because it wouldn’t fulfill me.

I consider my girls the greatest gift from God in life. And I also love the career that I have built, lost and rebuilt. But the highs and lows of my career would not have been as exciting or manageable to me if I didn’t have children and a partner for life with whom to share it all.

For many women, going back to work a few months after having a baby is overwhelming and unmanageable. As strange as it may seem, things get even more difficult for a working mom after the second and third baby arrive. By that time, the romance of being a modern ‘superwoman’ wears off and reality sets in.

On ‘Morning Joe’ I can say what I think, be my sometimes unorthodox self, have fun, yet be serious as well.

In high school, my two older brothers ran track. They’d come home sweaty and mud-covered, and I could tell they enjoyed it. So I started running – I ran a mile down the road and back again – and I haven’t stopped since.

I realize that of all people, I am no expert on parenting or marriage.

I am up at 3:30, reading the op-ed pages and getting ready to be on the air by 6 A.M. on the set of ‘Morning Joe,’ and after three hours of TV and two hours on the radio, it is only 12 noon.

The needs of babies and toddlers were constant and drained the life out my sense of self and my family’s relationship with each other.

I am not afraid to say my relationship with my man is important, even vital, to who I am as a person.

I suffered from a mild case of postpartum depression after my second child and the physical challenge of maintaining an overnight shift at CBS, a marriage, and two in diapers made the symptoms worse and everyone in the house paid the price.

My salary situation at ‘Morning Joe’ wasn’t right. I made five attempts to fix it, then realized I’d made the same mistake every time: I apologised for asking.

Often I feel like I can run forever. If someone told me I had to run for 10 hours, I probably could.

Despite my professional experience, the fifteen-hour workdays, and a successful new show that I had helped build, MSNBC was still refusing to pay me what I was worth.

I remember an interview so terrible with CNN’s Jon Klein, I nearly blurted out, ‘Forget it, I am a loser!’ But I didn’t need to say it. My face and posture did.

Everyday I find myself reminding women around me to know their value. I also have to remind myself.

Don’t push away that chance if you’re one of the lucky ones who find that partner. And remember, you can always change a job. I hear it’s much harder to switch out a husband.

These days, I am the most boring, methodical runner. I always do the same three- to five-mile loop near my home every evening. I hardly ever miss a day. On the weekends, I might go longer or add in weights.

Women play into each other’s weaknesses.

I don’t want to impose rules on people, but you have only a short window, and you’re sorely mistaken if you think you can put off having a family. It’s very hard to find a good man, and it’s never a ‘good time’ to have a baby if you have a career.

My parents found me very difficult to educate.