Roxane Gay Quotes

I just have to remind myself that my daily quotidie in life has almost nothing to do with any aspect of my professional life as a public figure.

My personal life is lived as 'me,' but my professional life is lived as other people. In other words, when I go to the office, I lie down, dream, and become 'someone else.' That's my job.

My entire career, I've been a worker.

I'm proud to be Secretary of Labor. But I'm even prouder of two more important titles: dad and husband. I've been able to be all three. I want all working people, no matter what their jobs are, to be able to meet their obligations both at work and at home.

These days we seem more bound to our bosses than ever before. We even identify our own selves with the jobs we do: 'What do you do?' is the first question we ask each other at parties, as if a job title could express a fundamental truth about our personality.

I don't feel uncomfortable in America, but every once in a while, I'm reminded that people don't see me the way I see me. It doesn't change my life, but it gives me a consciousness about it.

As a private person, professionally I am invisible.

I was so intent as a young lawyer on beating the men at their own game that I didn't take any real maternity leave with my three younger children. It is only looking back that I realise I wasn't beating the system but reinforcing it.

I have a personal life and a professional life, and there's no way to separate them; for a while I tried, but no one could find me.

Work defines our lives and our place in the world.

What I did for a living for so many years separated who I was from what I did.

In no small part I think all of us kind of look in the mirror and feel good or not feel good about the person we seen in the mirror in no small part because of the jobs we have.

I haven't ever felt I've had to divide my 'actress' life from the rest of my life.

It's always interesting to see how other people relate to their jobs.

Part of me isn't that interested as a person and a viewer in people's personal lives. I'm much more interested in what people do in the workplace and what goals they set themselves. I guess that's why I write a lot of precinct drama.

On my business card, I am a corporate president. In my mind, I am a computer programmer. But in my heart, I am a gamer.

At the end of the day, I know what my bread and butter is and how I can be effective.

Work is really wrapped up with identity. Work is not just money for most people.

The professional loves her work. She is invested in it wholeheartedly. But she does not forget that the work is not her.

I don't define myself as autistic first. I don't want to be a professional autistic. I think it's important to have a real job.

I walk out of this office every day at 5:30 so I'm home for dinner with my kids at 6, and interestingly, I've been doing that since I had kids. I did that when I was at Google, I did that here, and I would say it's not until the last year, two years, that I'm brave enough to talk about it publicly. Now I certainly wouldn't lie, but I wasn't running around giving speeches on it." "...there's no such thing as work-life balance. There's work, and there's life, and there's no balance.

I didn't realize the age thing until I got hired and everybody was telling me I was f - -ing old.

Well, we try to - we definitely try to have a balance. And I think things have gotten a lot better at Pixar. When we did "Toy Story," that was an all hands on deck situation that really was time intensive.

Work means so many things! So many! Among other things, work also means freedom. ... Without it even the miracle of love is only a cruel deception.

There are 25 differences in the way women and men behave in the workplace. These 25 differences lead to men receiving higher pay and women having better lives or at least more balanced lives.