I've been there for a couple of people when they were dying; it didn't look like fun. But if I was gonna do it, I'd want someone like me around. And I will be there!
For me, family feels like a web of love and care, and instinctively, too, I do just like nurturing things.
The historical weight of gender inequality has tended to concentrate women in lower-paid jobs with fewer benefits and at the same time made them primarily responsible for care giving.
If you have a sick or lonely person at home, be there. Maybe just to hold a hand, maybe just to give a smile, that is the greatest, the most beautiful work.
Hospice has brought such a light in my life. It is something I will be involved with until I need hospice myself.
She gave 'The Dream Carrier' to Max as if words alone could nourish him.
Taking care of yourself is the most powerful way to begin to take care of others.
I've found great solace in finally taking care of myself and others.
Well, for instance, when I left her today, she put her arms around me and felt my shoulder blades, to see if my wings were strong, she said.
I always help take care of my family.
"I'll be your family now," he says.
I think I'd like to be able to heal people's pain, whether it is hunger, loneliness or whatever.
The charity work is just a part of what I do. Like... I make time to clean my house, to care for my pets, to visit my extended family, because those things are important to me. Same with helping others.
The historical weight of gender inequality has tended to concentrate women in lower-paid jobs with fewer benefits, at the same time made them primarily responsible for care giving.
Caretaking is different from care giving. Care giving has no second agendas or hidden motives. The care is given from love for the joy of giving without expectation, no strings attached. It cannot be manipulated or discouraged because love cannot be manipulated or discouraged.
When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
The shaman is the figure at the beginning of human history that unites the doctor, the scientist and the artist into a single notion of care-giving and creativity.
I love to take care of people, which is why I went to nursing school.
Taking care of people is the duty of every politician.
I have much more support than most women around this world, and I have the financial means to have a home and help with care and food.
It took a long time for me to get into 'I'm taking care of kids,' and what that means.
There's something so remarkable in the intensity of taking care of somebody who can't take care of him or herself. And then watching that little person bloom into adolescence.
I love looking after animals. I find it very enjoyable.
There are many ways of supporting gender equality, from something as simple as paid sick leave and flexible work hours to attributing an economic value to all care-giving, and making that amount tax deductible.
