Diablo Cody Quotes

I take my hat off to mums who have lots of kids. Anyone that says being a mum isn't a full-time job has obviously never had any.

I have a three-year-old and a four-year-old at home, and my mornings are about just dealing with the fact of that. I oddly enjoy it.

It's harder to take care of kids than it is to make a movie.

We go to college, live together or marry, and have kids - often with little more thought to the daily routines of raising children than our grandparents gave them, when women by and large stayed at home.

I think all parents have a double life.

It's very rare that stand-up comics have kids, because once they do, they stop doing stand-up.

My friends who have kids look like they haven't been to bed for a year.

At home, I'm lucky if I can write three or four hours before the phone starts ringing and the kids want to go to soccer.

When I hear that a project takes place out of town, the material better be terrific, and it has to come at the right time. My kids are getting older, so it's getting easier, but being a mother - it's a difficult thing to juggle.

I don't see how a woman in documentary photography could have children. I think it's a very difficult thing to do to raise a family, and I have enormous respect for people who do it. I'd hate to do something like that and not be good at it.

Once you have six children, you're committed.

Some days I really love being a mom, and some days I don't! It's crazy - I'm tired of packing lunches!

It's hard for anybody who works a lot and has children. But I wouldn't trade it for anything.

I'm a mother, and my life is very full.

It definitely gets challenging at times. I travel a lot more now, and its never easy having to leave the kids, even if its for a few days.

I'm a father of four so whenever I'm not working my kids have their different sports, or plays, or school performances, so I don't do a whole lot of other stuff besides being a dad.

I was writing and I have three kids. I was occupying my time with them but it was difficult.

With two little boys in diapers, I had to keep it simple if I were going to have a life at all.

My wife and I are raising five children, and it's tough between two people, let alone with one that's working full-time and is stressed out and coming home to a lot of difficulties.

When you finally have kids, you realize how selfish you are. I think we are naturally selfish beings. When you have kids, that can kind of be a shock at first. I think just trying to make time for yourself is very hard. Especially now that I have 3, finding that time can be very difficult.

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

I married a politician. But I thought it would be tough for my children to have two parents as politicians.

When you have a kid at home, it takes up all your time.

I would say the biggest challenge I had as a woman in science is be a mom. It's really hard. It's very hard work having children, and I tell kids this all the time.

Antiques Roadshow' was the first job I had taken since my children were born that took me away from them consistently over a period of time. That was a big adjustment for all of us.