It's rare to find women who have that balance between work and life, who are really psyched for another woman's success.
A conclusion I’ve come to at the Idler is that it starts with retreating from work but it’s really about making work into something that isn’t drudgery and slavery, and then work and life can become one thing.
There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.
The horrors have made the legend of Mandelstam and are inevitably the lens through which we read his work and life. But if there had been no Stalin and no purge, Mandelstam still would have been a poet of severe emotional and existential extremity.
Failure of your company is not failure in life. Failure in your relationships is.
In Italy, they add work and life on to food and wine.
Don't confuse having a career with having a life.