Kathleen Turner Quotes

The reality is that family is on the cards in the future. But you know in motorsport if you take yourself off to have children, you won't come back, partly as you're quickly forgotten in this sport.

If the feminist program goes to pieces on the arrival of the first baby, it's false and useless.

I'm not sure if I want to continue to work when I have kids.

At 24, I took time off to have a baby, and ever since, I have been juggling modelling with motherhood.

If colleges and universities are really concerned about women's rights, then they must adjust to a far more flexible structure to allow young women students to take leaves of absence if they want to have children early.

I'd long wanted to write about that moment when a woman steps off the career track to have her first child. For me, that was a scary time.

I'm one of the lucky few who never had to face the whole 'Oh, you've had a baby, and now work will have to suffer' bit. It just wasn't a big deal when I got married and had a baby.

Many of the big decisions over progression, promotion and future career trajectory are taken when people are in their late twenties and thirties, putting women at a huge disadvantage because this is the very time they are most likely to be having a break to have children.

I am glad that I do not have any children.

I think that in our society we should do everything to encourage child-bearing and family-making. And I think that if insurance will cover Viagra for men, it should also be covering these kinds of methods to try to build families.

I believe employment regulations for women, whereby the prospective employer is not able to inquire about the interviewee's status regarding children, childcare, or indeed their intention of becoming a parent, are counterproductive.

I took a long period off to be a mom.

I know women at work who don't talk about having a baby because they don't want to upset the apple cart, but unless people know what the problems are, why should they engage with it?

In Sweden, both parents take care of the children.

I worked before I had my daughter, enough for three actresses.

Maternity leave and parental leave is absolutely vital for strengthening families. It's an issue for men and women.

In college, the guys aren't worrying about whether they'll be able to pursue their career dreams and still have kids.

We don't have enough support for maternal leave and the kinds of things that some of the European countries do. So we still make it hard on women to go into the work force and feel that they can be good at work but then doing the most important job, which is raising your children in a responsible and positive way.

We need a national family leave policy that will allow both men and women to take paid time off from work to care for a newborn or a sick relative.

I think it's incredibly important to spend the first year with your child, and it should be made possible for all women.

I think that the female workforce is so valuable. And if we're going to champion women in the workforce, which our economy seems to want to do, we have to deal with the realities, which is that they have children, and they need a way to take care of their children in a supportive work environment.

I definitely don't want to have kids. I don't think I'd be a great mother. I don't want to have a kid and have it raised by a nanny. I don't have the time to raise a child.

If you want to have high-powered career women who have families, you need to provide options for them in terms of childcare.

I come from Canada, and maternity leave is six months to a year, and they also have paternity leave, and I think that there's something to that. There's also something to making a more comfortable environment for women to breast feed or to bring their kids into work and to have more nurseries in these office buildings.

How can we say we're for family values when so many women in the United States have to jeopardize their livelihood to take a few weeks off from work after giving birth? Should a man have to sacrifice his economic security to take care of his sick mother or his wife returning wounded from active duty?