Caregiving Quotes:

I'm sure there are people who can toggle quickly from all-in caregiving to structured socializing, but I can't think of any offhand.

- Carolyn Hax

source: "Carolyn Hax Live: 'I'm from the '80s. Everything seems excessive to me.'". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. September 16, 2016.

topic: Thinking, People, Caregiving, Socializing

There are only four kinds of people in the world - those who have been caregivers, those who are caregivers, those who will be caregivers and those who will need caregivers.

- Rosalynn Carter

topic: Caring, Helping Others, People, Helpers, Caregiving

To care for those who once cared for us is one of the highest honors.

- Tia Walker

topic: Honor, Care, Caregiving

Caregiving has no second agendas or hidden motives. The care is given from love for the joy of giving without expectation, no strings attached.

- Gary Zukav

source: "Why Painful Things Happen to Good People" by Gary Zukav, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2013.

topic: Strings Attached, Giving, Expectations, Joy Of Giving, No Strings Attached

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Social Good, Making A Difference In The World

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.

- Joan Baez

source: Joan Baez (1968). “DAYBREAK”

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Death, Live Life To Its Fullest, Just Live Your Life

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

- Amy Tan

source: Amy Tan (2003). “The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life”, p.47, Penguin

topic: Change, Attitude, Fate, Inspirational Attitude, My Attitude

What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.

- Louis Mann

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Men, Caregiving, Caregivers

Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

- Norman MacEwen

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Giving, Social Good, Making A Difference In The World

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

- Confucius

topic: Life, Success, Mistake, Diamond Rings, Caregiving

Caregiving requires the intention of love, caretaking requires the intention of fear. Not acting in anger when you are angry requires the intention of love.

- Gary Zukav

source: "Why Painful Things Happen to Good People" by Gary Zukav, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2013.

topic: Acting, Intention, Caretaking, Caregiving

Caregiving often calls us to lean into love we didn't know possible.

- Tia Walker

topic: Caregiving, Caregivers

Care work produces public goods, and should be supported in families by policies such as paid parental leave and caregiver tax credits, and by investments in good training and wages for caregiving, including early childhood education, in the market.

- Riane Eisler

source: Source: www.psychologytoday.com

topic: Childhood, Training, Wages, Caregiving, Caregivers

Thus, just as animals of many species, including man, are disposed to respond with fear to sudden movement or a marked change in level of sound or light because to do so has a survival value, so are many species, including man, disposed to respond to separation from a potentially caregiving figure and for the same reasons.

- John Bowlby

source: John Bowlby (2012). “A Secure Base”, p.33, Routledge

topic: Animal, Men, Light, Caregiving

Even in these tough economic times, Barack [Obama] has left the VA budget as is so that they're prepared to deal with this influx of men and women who are coming home and dealing with a whole array of issues, not just around mental health but just caregiving and the stresses of reconnecting with families who have been away from each other for a very long time.

- Michelle Obama

source: Source: www.wbur.org

topic: Stress, Home, Men, Away From Each Other, Tough Economic Times

As long as women and the "feminine" such as caring and caregiving are devalued, we cannot realistically expect more caring economic policies. Young people have a major role to play in creating a caring economics.

- Riane Eisler

source: Source: www.psychologytoday.com

topic: Caring, Play, Creating, Caregiving, Economic Policy

As girls are given dollies and pushchairs while little boys are frowned upon for picking them up; while men are 'congratulated' for occasionally 'babysitting' their own children and women are castigated for daring to combine motherhood and career; while baby changing facilities are provided in women's toilets but rarely in the men's, is it any wonder we tend to take on the roles society stereotypically pushes on us when it comes to caregiving?

- Laura Bates

topic: Girl, Baby, Children, Babysitting, Caregiving

Any insistence on equal pay is crucial and any redefinition of work to include caregiving work so that it also has an economic value, at least at replacement level, that's crucial. So change does come from the bottom up, and it will come from girls and women and men who understand that for us all to be human beings instead of being grouped by gender is good for them, too.

- Gloria Steinem

source: Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

topic: Girl, Men, Equal Pay, Economic Value, Caregiving

So you're getting squeezed at both sides. You're taking care of your mom and dad and you're still doing caregiving with your kids, which is not easy. But I think overall, there's a level of satisfaction that might be unparalleled.

- Anna Quindlen

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Mom, Dad, Kids, Caregiving