Sarah Jessica Parker Quotes

People get messed up because they have a million guys they have to take care of. I don't have that.

We women know how to take care of everybody so well. But the one person we have written out of the equation is us.

Once upon a time, the homemaker was just Mom, but now we've evolved and come to a place where we're celebrating grandmas, grandpas, moms, dads - all the people that keep it safe and clean for our kids - and the overall health for ourselves so we can continue to function and do the variety of things we all do.

I don't have much of a personal life.

My love life is not a priority.

These people that are in consuming jobs - you forget to do one thing. And that's to take care of yourself.

every mind is at least as heavy as mine

I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts.

In life, when the baggage gets too heavy, you have to put it down.

Make sure you have your own life before becoming someone's wife ~spoken to Oprah in an interview

It is the very wantonness of folly for a man to search out the frets and burdens of his calling and give his mind every day to a consideration of them. They belong to human life. They are inevitable. Brooding only gives them strength.

Women are dirt searchers; their greatest worth is irradicating rings on collars and tables. Never mind real-estate boards' corruption and racism, here's your soapsuds. Everything she is doing is peripheral, expendable, crucial, and non-negotiable. Cleanliness is next to godliness.

I had my back waxed once by two women... and at one point they said, Do you mind if we take a break?

As women, we cannot afford to neglect ourselves.

His face was very heavily creased, and into each crease he had tucked some worry or other, so that it wasn't really his face any longer, but more like a tree that had nests of birds in all of the branches. He had to struggle constantly to manage it and always looked worn out from the effort.

Running a house should be left to innkeepers.

Homemaking is surely in reality the most important work in the world.

Putting your well-being first - like putting your oxygen mask on before you help the person next to you - that really benefits all your relationships.

I let her do some of my laundry and she slipped in a few meals in between, and next thing I remember, she was all moved in.

You have to have something in your life that's more important than the work. People don't really like to admit that. I think that you have to find something else. I don't know what it is. Is it yoga or God or politics? For me it's just family.

I just don't want you to worry about me, or think you've met me, or waste your time anymore.

When you need a haircut, it looks like you have no one to take care of you.

Mab turned back to me and eyed me up and down. She quirked one eyebrow, very slightly, somehow conveying layers of disapproval toward multiple aspects of my appearance, conduct, and situation, and said, 'Finally.' 'There’s been a lot on my mind,' I replied. 'It seems unlikely that your cares will lighten,' Queen Mab replied. 'Improve your mind.'

You're buying years of work, toil in the sun; you're buying a sorrow that can't talk.