psychologist, television personality and advice columnist, publishing a daily syndicated newspaper column since 1960.
Brothers was born Joyce Diane Bauer in New York City
, New York
, the daughter of Estelle (née Rapaport) and Morris K. Bauer, both of whom were attorneys and had a law practice together. Her family is Jewish. She graduated from Far Rockaway High School
in Far Rockaway, Queens
in 1943.
She earned her Ph.D.
degree in psychology
from Columbia University
after completing her undergraduate work at Cornell University
.
Marriage is not just spiritual communion and passionate embraces; marriage is also three meals a day, sharing the workload and remembering to carry out the trash.
Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the cruelest words.
I don’t give advice. I can’t tell anybody what to do. Instead I say this is what we know about this problem at this time. And here are the consequences of these actions.
Don’t fool yourself that you are going to have it all. You are not. Psychologically, having it all is not even a valid concept. The marvelous thing about human beings is that we are perpetually reaching for the stars. The more we have, the more we want. And for this reason, we never have it all.
In each of us are places where we have never gone. Only by pressing the limits do you ever find them.
When you look at your life the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.
When you come right down to it, the secret of having it all is loving it all.
No matter how much pressure you feel at work, if you could find ways to relax for at least five minutes every hour, you'd be more productive.
We control fifty percent of a relationship. We influence one hundred percent of it.