Arianna Huffington Quotes

The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection.
Arianna Huffington

Mom, Mother, Give

We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.
Arianna Huffington

Success, Failure, Sometimes

I think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt, working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids!
Arianna Huffington

Mom, Feelings, Working

America is a country ready to be taken, in fact, longing to be taken by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process.
Arianna Huffington

Trust, Political, Democracy

Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an after-life.
Arianna Huffington

Creativity, Result, Obsession

The middle class is teetering on the brink of collapse just as surely as AIG was in the fall of 2009 - only this time, it's not just one giant insurance company (and its banking counterparties) facing disaster, it's tens of millions of hardworking Americans who played by the rules.
Arianna Huffington

Time, Fall, Rules

The more we refuse to buy into our inner critics - and our external ones too - the easier it will get to have confidence in our choices, and to feel comfortable with who we are - as women and as mothers.
Arianna Huffington

Women, Confidence, Mothers

There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where there is intense love, there is also intense fear lurking beneath the surface.
Arianna Huffington

Love, Fear, Kids

But you have to do what you dream of doing even while you're afraid.
Arianna Huffington

Afraid, Dream, While

But, in fact, there is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears - like not being approved of - pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children.
Arianna Huffington

Children, Nothing, Everything

Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.
Arianna Huffington

Life, Run, Natural

I'm pulling out, and I'm going to concentrate every ounce of time and energy over the next week working to defeat the recall because I realize now that's the only way to defeat Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Arianna Huffington

Time, Working, Energy

Increasingly, staying in the middle class - let alone aspiring to become middle class - is becoming a game of chance.
Arianna Huffington

Alone, Game, Become

It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities and disastrous to force them to suppress their specifically female characteristics and abilities by keeping up the pretense that there are no differences between the sexes.
Arianna Huffington

Women, Between, Force

It's no longer an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species.
Arianna Huffington

Longer, Endangered, Species

Liberation is an ever shifting horizon, a total ideology that can never fulfill its promises. It has the therapeutic quality of providing emotionally charged rituals of solidarity in hatred - it is the amphetamine of its believers.
Arianna Huffington

Hatred, Quality, Promises

Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.
Arianna Huffington

Wisdom, Everything, Through

Not only is it harder to be a man, it is also harder to become one.
Arianna Huffington

The economic game is not supposed to be rigged like some shady ring toss on a carnival midway.
Arianna Huffington

Game, Economic, Ring

There is nothing like becoming a mom to fill you with fear.
Arianna Huffington

Fear, Mom, Nothing

Trying to be Supermom is as futile as trying to be Perfect Mom. Not going to happen.
Arianna Huffington

Mom, Happen, Trying

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Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: July 15, 1950

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