Mika Brzezinski Quotes

Being a working mom is not easy. You have to be willing to screw up at every level.

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

When you're a stay-at-home mother you have to pretend it's really boring, but it's not. It's enriching and fulfilling, and an amazing experience. And then when you're a working mother you have to pretend that you feel guilty all day long.

I haven't really given much thought to the whole 'working mother' thing.

‘How do you juggle it all?’ people constantly ask me, with an accusatory look in their eyes. ‘You’re screwing it all up, aren’t you?’ their eyes say. My standard answer is that I have the same struggle as any working parent but with the good fortune to be working at my dream job. Or sometimes I just hand them a juicy red apple I’ve poisoned in my working-mother witch cauldron and fly away.

Working moms, stay at home moms, they're both extremely hard jobs.

I feel like I'm a stay-at-home mom, which I was for the five years before this. She's absolutely been my focus. That's the choice I made. Desperate Housewives is perfect for me. I get to go back to work and still be able to take my daughter to school and pick her up.

I've shared the fate of many working mothers; I felt guilty like them.

Being a mom is hard, I think a lot of working moms feel that way.

There are days when I struggle with wanting to be a full-time, stay-at-home mom, and feeling guilty about that because I work.

I think I would make a lousy stay-at-home mom. It just wouldn't suit me.

I have a great husband, great parents and in-laws, and I have help with a nanny. It's not easy, but there are others who do it every day and don't have a high-profile job as I do.

When my daughter Zulekha was born, I was at the pinnacle of my working life as a model, and I pulled myself in two trying to cope with being both a mother and a career girl.

Mothers who work full time - they're the real heroes.

I think that any moms that leave, even for the day at work, and come home every night will tell you that it's not easy.

A couple of female standup comics I know refer to their kids as their Little Career Killers. I was like, I really do not want to feel that way.

I'm on my own so I do everything. I think with any mum, guilt is a major factor. You feel guilty dropping your kid off at nursery and going off to work all day. It's so tough to juggle everything, to get it right all the time.

Being a mother is like trying to hold a wolf by the ears,” Gram said. “If you have three or four –or more – chickabiddies, you’re dancing on a hot griddle all the time. You don’t have time to think about anything else. And if you’ve only got one or two, it’s almost harder. You have room left over – empty spaces that you think you’ve got to fill up.

I always say to people that working full time and being a mom is probably the hardest job, because as a mom you think about your child 24/7.

I didn't realise how hard it was to be a mom and keep it all together.

I suppose I experienced the personal dilemma that baffles every working woman. What happens when you are expected to be Superwoman, to perform a dozen conflicting tasks at the same time?

With a toddler, chilling out is hard to do.

I want to work, but the balance to find between working and being a mom is challenging.

When you're trying to be a parent and a businessperson at the same time, that is the most stressful thing you could do.

It was never something that I thought put me in a good light, that I was a working mom.