Teresa Heinz Quotes

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

I think because I became a mom later in life, everything in life means more.

Personally, I've always known that I wanted to go back to work because I'm confident, and I'm certain that my daughter will have a better mother in me if I'm doing the things that I'm excited about and that I'm passionate about.

My mom has always said that the one thing she wishes she had done differently is have a job. She felt like the single-mindedness made her a little nuts sometimes, and she could have used an outlet for herself when we were little.

I think just because you're a mom, it doesn't negate - if anything, you're probably more enhanced - that you're a woman trying to find your place in the world.

Is it harder having kids and working? It definitely is, but the payoff is you get to go home to your kids, and it all balances out. And I know I'm a better mother when I'm engaged in something outside of the house.

Anything that opens you up emotionally is going to impact your acting. Parenthood, becoming a mom, certainly does that.

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

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 like being a mother, and I want to be involved in my work, so I have to make choices. If you're a film actress, your career is from 20 to 45, but you can still dream.

I like to work. The self-esteem and satisfaction that I get from working makes me a better person, which makes me a better mom. I feel lucky because I have the luxury of working only one or two days a week.

It took a while for me to figure out how it all fit in, being a mother and being a woman and being a rock singer.

We go through our careers and things happen to us. Those experiences made me what I am.

I love being a mum but I do love to work too.

I want to work; then, as my kids get older, I want to have adventures. I want to visit all their countries: learn and live inside all their cultures.

My father's peripatetic career also gave me critical perspective when it came to my own career choices.

I like to work. The self-esteem and satisfaction that I get from working makes me a better person, which makes me a better mom.

I think over the years, being a mother, I've matured in so many ways.

When I was young, I thought I wouldn't be a good mother. Now I think I would be, but I'm too long in the tooth.

I want to be more successful as a mother than I am in show business.

The balancing act of motherhood and a career, and being a wife, is something that I don't think I'll ever perfect, but I love the challenge of it.

One of our daughters is now a physician; another is a vice president of a major entertainment company; and the third is a clinical therapist. They place no limits on their ambitions, but for them, those ambitions also have had to fit within the context of having children.

I love acting. But I love being a mother. To be a full mother and a full person, you have to do what you love, and that's acting. But I like the best of both worlds.

Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn't interest you, don't do it - I would have made a terrible mother.

Becoming a mother has helped make me a tougher, stronger writer.