Tamra Davis Quotes

I don't really make plans and I just want to be happy and continue with my business and take care of my wife and kids. I want to sit back, relax and enjoy life.

You have to prioritize what you stress about when you have a child.

Yeah, I could go rock on the back porch and do crossword puzzles - but I've got six kids, ages 9 to 16, and someone in the family should work. That's me.

Fortunately, when you're a mom, the responsibility of caring for your child can keep you going.

My daily schedule is quite hectic, but I have to put my health first in order to be the best mom and wife I can be.

Being a mother adds an enormous amount of stress to your life. You need to make sure you're there for everything.

I not only want to make sure I keep my children healthy, but I need to be healthy to be here for them.

I can't get to the point where my brain is mush and I can barely talk, because my son's life depends on my health.

When I was a new mom, I used to think that life was going to be balanced, and I strived for that. But life is crazy!

Parenthood involves massive sacrifice: money, attention, time and emotional energy.

I don't think most people understand that when I wasn't running for president, I was working. Because I have to earn income. I have three kids in college. And three in school. And I have a little girl that has a lot of special needs. So I've got to work for a living. I was working already.

I honestly wondered how on earth I would manage to combine work and motherhood.

I think when you're a mom and an actor, it forces you to leave any actor neuroses behind and just concentrate on the work.

A mother's got to be there to raise the children. That's all there is to it. I feel badly for those mothers who work hard, and can't do it all the time.

I guess if you're lucky enough not to have to pay your rent, then you or I take much more seriously the kind of work that I do, what it takes for me to leave two teenagers of my own and six stepchildren and a husband and four grandchildren.

But when we have families, when we have children, this gives us a purpose for being, to protect our children, to avoid going to jail because if I'm in jail, who looks after my children, who's there for my wife?

I don't make my own schedule - it's constructed around my sons' school schedules.

I'm a better mother if I'm also doing my work. Some women find a lot more satisfaction from doing the hardest job, which is being a mom. But I like my day job, so I juggle a lot.

I've learned that every working mom is a superwoman.

It's really hard to balance work and being a mother.

Of course having a baby derails the writing process for some time. And I will be the first to say that I have essentially no social life, because there's just nothing left after being a mom, professor, and writer. I used to be big into rock climbing. No more. A lot falls by the wayside.

It's a constant challenge trying to find balance between styling, designing and being a mom.

I work to take care of my family, not the other way around.

I came out of retirement to run a start-up. Historically, I seldom used all of my vacation time, and the last sick day I took was in 1992. I am a sick puppy.

I'm very conscious of the fact that when I'm working, my daughter is not with one of her parents.