Beryl Bainbridge Quotes

Women get exhausted and beat down, and you just want to cry.

Being a parent can make you a horrible person at times, because you're pushed to the limit constantly.

I don't enjoy being interviewed. I feel like it exhausts a lot of my energy. I feel empty after.

this time has finished me.

I'm tired of making people sad and I'm tired of disappointing them and I'm tired of seeing them break. I have seen this too many times. He will be the last.

You know how exasperated you can be when you're the mother of five young boys.

I have been driven demented in my career.

I feel like a human pinata. The disappointing thing is, no candy is going to spill out.

I just want to get through each day without the need to shut my eyes for 10 minutes.

I don't think I can do this anymore.

I have a theory that burnout is about resentment. And you beat it by knowing what it is you're giving up that makes you resentful.

Sadly, I haven't had a brain cell since I had children.

We worked so hard we almost stopped enjoying it.

I am too weary to listen, too angry to hear.

Why do we work so hard to feel so terrible.

I've made a few albums in such an autonomous way; it often has been exhausting. It's almost difficult to enjoy the process when you take on so much.

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.

I hate it when people slag us off. We had done three tours during 1970 and we finished off feeling we had just about had enough. We had done so much in that short space of time, we were drained.

I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.

There are days when I am just dead on the floor, and I'm there in my makeup, and that's getting a little tiring.

The more I read about feeding times, sleep times and waking-up times, the more inadequate and miserable I felt.

... too emotionally strung out.

Every time I am directing, I question why in God's name I'm doing it again. It's like hitting yourself in the forehead with a hammer.

I think I'm an extremely good mother. I know I'm an extremely good mother. But I didn't realise how much it sucks out of you.

Modeling sucks.