“A woman cannot have real autonomy unless she has reproductive autonomy. My hope is that one day both Church and society will embrace this justice issue. —Donna Quinn”
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Jo Piazza,
If Nuns Ruled the World: Ten Sisters on a Mission
“When you wake up next to someone every day, pick their hair out of the drain, clean up their dirty dishes, socks, and underwear, listen to them bitch about their job and tell the same stories and jokes over and over again, it's nice to be reminded of what it's like when they're not around - and to realize things are better when they are.” ― Jo Piazza, How to Be Married: What I Learned from Real Women on Five Continents About Surviving My First (Really Hard) Year of Marriage
“Have we all become so desperate to share everything that we've stopped enjoying our lives?” ― Lucy Sykes, Jo Piazza
“Oh… and we’re out of toilet paper.”Then why don’t you replace it? It’s under the sink, in the same place I always put it after I buy it.” ― Jo Piazza, Charlotte Walsh Likes To Win
“Nearly every romantic comedy ever made ends with the wedding and leaves out the most interesting part—the marriage.” ― Jo Piazza, How to Be Married: What I Learned from Real Women on Five Continents About Surviving My First (Really Hard) Year of Marriage
“Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.” —Mother Teresa” ― Jo Piazza, If Nuns Ruled the World: Ten Sisters on a Mission
“marriage, it had taken Charlotte more than a decade to figure out, wasn’t the sum of the moments like this, the ones that took your breath away and made you thank God for the person you married. It was the totality of the moments that weren’t wonderful, the crises you weathered together, and the people you became on the other side.” ― Jo Piazza, Charlotte Walsh Likes To Win
“Now that she had no way to control the outcome of the situation, she was able to put it in perspective. Maybe the world didn’t need her to fix everything. She’d been smug about that, often self-righteous and heavy-handed. Plenty of people glimpsed ghosts of lives they could have lived. She had at least attempted this one. That was worth something. Wasn’t it?” ― Jo Piazza, Charlotte Walsh Likes To Win
“The Western transition away from tribal culture has caused us a few great losses - one of them is the concept of true community. Without community we turn to the economy to replace what we’ve lost by hiring therapists, nannies, doulas, reiki healers and housekeepers. But it’s hard to hire a mentor, to find women and men who’ve been there before us and are willing to honestly counsel us about what marriage really has in store.” ― Jo Piazza, How to Be Married: What I Learned from Real Women on Five Continents About Surviving My First (Really Hard) Year of Marriage
“I look at my long-married friends and wonder if perhaps the quotidian nature of daily married life-- the repetition, routine, and perpetual proximity of another human-- makes it dangerously easy to become numb to whatever made you fall in love in the first place and to search for imperfections where you once only found delight.” ― Jo Piazza, How to Be Married: What I Learned from Real Women on Five Continents About Surviving My First (Really Hard) Year of Marriage
“What the piece didn't capture was the fact that she still did the majority of the housework and a good deal of the parenting every single minute she wasn't at work. Max was forgiven for dropping the girls late at school or forgetting to pack juice or emergency underwear because he was the adorable stay-at-home dad. Other mommies swooped in to help him, so sorry for the hapless man whose wife made him shoulder the burden of parenting three young girls. You have it so easy. You're a goddamned hero just for being a man who takes care of your own children.” ― Jo Piazza, Charlotte Walsh Likes To Win
“It wasn't the first time Charlotte recognized the lack of control she had over how her senior staff managed this campaign. Josh was often her brain, and her staff was her nervous system. Many days she felt like just a mouth.” ― Jo Piazza, Charlotte Walsh Likes To Win
“They change the world every single day...through their actions, and living the way they believe Jesus would want them to live.” ― Jo Piazza, If Nuns Ruled the World: Ten Sisters on a Mission
“Instead I wanted to talk about what it means to be an ambitious woman and what it often costs us. I wanted to explore how the media treats women and how women treat one another. I wanted to show how difficult it still is for a woman to run for office even though we all know we need more of us in government.” ― Jo Piazza, Charlotte Walsh Likes To Win
“Never stop talking Talk about things that make you feel uncomfortable and itchy and happy and sad and strange Talk in person, on the phone, over text, via emoji; just keep talking Shut the door when you pee You do you Complaining is contagious; don’t start the complaining or you’ll never stop Buy sexy new underwear once a month Walk naked around the house, but don’t lie around in sweatpants…ever.” ― Jo Piazza, How to Be Married: What I Learned from Real Women on Five Continents About Building a Happy Marriage
“Why’d you marry me?” “You were the smartest and most capable woman I’d ever met. You were my best friend. I never wanted to marry a woman like my mother, someone who needed a man to get through life. I knew you’d always want to take care of yourself. You made me laugh. You made me happy. I knew I’d never be bored.” ― Jo Piazza, Charlotte Walsh Likes To Win
“Forgiveness is the grace by which you enable the other person to get up, and get up with dignity, to begin anew.” ― Jo Piazza, Charlotte Walsh Likes To Win
“Haven’t we heard this over and over again when we talk about powerful women in business and politics? Agreements, arrangements, convenience. Powerful men never have these things. They just have marriages.” ― Jo Piazza, Charlotte Walsh Likes To Win
“When you wake up next to someone every day, pick their hair out of the drain, clean up their dirty dishes, socks, and underwear, listen to them bitch about their job and tell the same stories and jokes over and over again, it's nice to be reminded of what it's like when they're not around - and to realize things are better when they are.” ― Jo Piazza, How to Be Married: What I Learned from Real Women on Five Continents About Surviving My First (Really Hard) Year of Marriage
“Have we all become so desperate to share everything that we've stopped enjoying our lives?” ― Lucy Sykes, Jo Piazza
“Oh… and we’re out of toilet paper.”Then why don’t you replace it? It’s under the sink, in the same place I always put it after I buy it.” ― Jo Piazza, Charlotte Walsh Likes To Win
“Nearly every romantic comedy ever made ends with the wedding and leaves out the most interesting part—the marriage.” ― Jo Piazza, How to Be Married: What I Learned from Real Women on Five Continents About Surviving My First (Really Hard) Year of Marriage
“Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.” —Mother Teresa” ― Jo Piazza, If Nuns Ruled the World: Ten Sisters on a Mission
“marriage, it had taken Charlotte more than a decade to figure out, wasn’t the sum of the moments like this, the ones that took your breath away and made you thank God for the person you married. It was the totality of the moments that weren’t wonderful, the crises you weathered together, and the people you became on the other side.” ― Jo Piazza, Charlotte Walsh Likes To Win
“Now that she had no way to control the outcome of the situation, she was able to put it in perspective. Maybe the world didn’t need her to fix everything. She’d been smug about that, often self-righteous and heavy-handed. Plenty of people glimpsed ghosts of lives they could have lived. She had at least attempted this one. That was worth something. Wasn’t it?” ― Jo Piazza, Charlotte Walsh Likes To Win
“The Western transition away from tribal culture has caused us a few great losses - one of them is the concept of true community. Without community we turn to the economy to replace what we’ve lost by hiring therapists, nannies, doulas, reiki healers and housekeepers. But it’s hard to hire a mentor, to find women and men who’ve been there before us and are willing to honestly counsel us about what marriage really has in store.” ― Jo Piazza, How to Be Married: What I Learned from Real Women on Five Continents About Surviving My First (Really Hard) Year of Marriage
“I look at my long-married friends and wonder if perhaps the quotidian nature of daily married life-- the repetition, routine, and perpetual proximity of another human-- makes it dangerously easy to become numb to whatever made you fall in love in the first place and to search for imperfections where you once only found delight.” ― Jo Piazza, How to Be Married: What I Learned from Real Women on Five Continents About Surviving My First (Really Hard) Year of Marriage
“What the piece didn't capture was the fact that she still did the majority of the housework and a good deal of the parenting every single minute she wasn't at work. Max was forgiven for dropping the girls late at school or forgetting to pack juice or emergency underwear because he was the adorable stay-at-home dad. Other mommies swooped in to help him, so sorry for the hapless man whose wife made him shoulder the burden of parenting three young girls. You have it so easy. You're a goddamned hero just for being a man who takes care of your own children.” ― Jo Piazza, Charlotte Walsh Likes To Win
“It wasn't the first time Charlotte recognized the lack of control she had over how her senior staff managed this campaign. Josh was often her brain, and her staff was her nervous system. Many days she felt like just a mouth.” ― Jo Piazza, Charlotte Walsh Likes To Win
“They change the world every single day...through their actions, and living the way they believe Jesus would want them to live.” ― Jo Piazza, If Nuns Ruled the World: Ten Sisters on a Mission
“Instead I wanted to talk about what it means to be an ambitious woman and what it often costs us. I wanted to explore how the media treats women and how women treat one another. I wanted to show how difficult it still is for a woman to run for office even though we all know we need more of us in government.” ― Jo Piazza, Charlotte Walsh Likes To Win
“Never stop talking Talk about things that make you feel uncomfortable and itchy and happy and sad and strange Talk in person, on the phone, over text, via emoji; just keep talking Shut the door when you pee You do you Complaining is contagious; don’t start the complaining or you’ll never stop Buy sexy new underwear once a month Walk naked around the house, but don’t lie around in sweatpants…ever.” ― Jo Piazza, How to Be Married: What I Learned from Real Women on Five Continents About Building a Happy Marriage
“Why’d you marry me?” “You were the smartest and most capable woman I’d ever met. You were my best friend. I never wanted to marry a woman like my mother, someone who needed a man to get through life. I knew you’d always want to take care of yourself. You made me laugh. You made me happy. I knew I’d never be bored.” ― Jo Piazza, Charlotte Walsh Likes To Win
“Forgiveness is the grace by which you enable the other person to get up, and get up with dignity, to begin anew.” ― Jo Piazza, Charlotte Walsh Likes To Win
“Haven’t we heard this over and over again when we talk about powerful women in business and politics? Agreements, arrangements, convenience. Powerful men never have these things. They just have marriages.” ― Jo Piazza, Charlotte Walsh Likes To Win
