Susan Straight Quotes

I'm a mom first, a singer second.

Bringing my two children up while writing was just a part of life. I'd much rather have had their interruptions than been stuck in a sterile office. This way, I had welcome distractions. I had to load the washing machine, I had to go out and buy lemons.

I felt this pressure to just be the singer in my family or the musician in my family. But once I had my son, I was like, 'No, I can do all of it.'

My life revolves around my writing, my wife and my son.

I'm like any working mom.

I'm a working mom. I've been working since I was 14 years old.

I'm a just a mom when I walk down the street.

I'm a mom first.

I'm a mother, and that's really important. Today, the mother and the musician can sit next to each other. Even when the musician is out there in full swing, the mother doesn't get switched off.

A career is a career, but you're a mother until you die.

Being a mother, singer and actress is a definite juggling act, but I don't think I would be comfortable any other way.

I want to be playing music, and I want to be a great mom, and I want to do everything.

I'm able to shift gears from mom to performer to mom pretty quickly.

My biggest challenge every day is to be a great mother and a great businesswoman.

One thing I didn't want to believe in is that I couldn't have a family and do music at the same time.

Naturally you want to be the best mom you can, but then also you want to be the best performer you can.

It was by coincidence that I ended up opening my first shop in 1968, and I haven't stopped since. I now find myself trying to do everything. I couldn't live without creating my collections, without writing, drawing and reading. But I couldn't either live without being close to my children on a daily basis and also to my grandchildren, and to all the people I love. I guess I am like every woman today, one who juggles her work and family life.

Training for the Olympics was much easier than balancing my life now! When practice was over, there was time for me. But with four kids and a career, I have no downtime. When I'm not on the road, I finish my workday at 2:30 p.m. Then I pick the kids up from school and they get 100 percent Mommy, not part Mommy and part Mary Lou Retton.

I pride myself on finding balance. I love making music and I love raising my boys - I find time to make both a priority.

I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.

After the war, when my husband came home, we had two more children, and domesticity for a while prevailed combined with beginning the work I had always wanted to do, which was writing a book.

It's about getting the kids up and fed, getting one to school, getting the other down for a nap, going to the grocery store, picking one up from school, getting the other one down for another nap, cooking dinner... I live my life at these two extremes. I'm either a full-time stay-at-home mom or a full-time actress.

Everyone has early fiction fantasies, but it wasn't until my second child Betsy was born that I allowed the urge to write a novel bubble up.

Yes, I wear a number of hats. But my most important title is mom and wife.

I'm married, I have a couple kids, I've traveled a lot, I've done book tours a lot, I'm happy to stay home and take my kids to school and come to the office.