Carmen Carrera Quotes

You want to be a good mother, and you want to be a good actress, and you want to be a good friend, and we expect this of us, to be all of this.

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.

I don't live my life as a writer. I'm a mother, an African-American woman, and I do everything that everybody else does - cook and a little bit of cleaning.

The woman who has her being in marriage and motherhood has become part of antithetical reality, revoking property from the woman who remains in a condition of intangible femininity.

We wanted to be achievers, but being an achiever didn't mean that you stopped being a woman.

A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.

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.

What does it mean to a successful woman today? Does it mean you have to be a mother? If you are a mother, does it mean you have to be a mother with a husband? If you don't have a husband, what is the role that the man plays? I think there are a lot of confusing things that we're all really still sorting out.

I believe that all women should have children. I think women are made to have children and to be mothers. I also think women have to have an identity outside the home.

A huge part of keeping women in their place has to do with creating a really limited definition of what a 'real' woman is like. And a ton of that what-makes-a-woman nonsense is attached to motherhood. Apparently, by virtue of having ovaries and a uterus, women are automatic mommies or mommies-to-be.

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.

There are lots of different ways for women to be a mom in this culture.

I haven't wanted to play a mother for a long time because I am one.

I am less selfish. But I am more insistent on being part of the creative experience. I find I am a better mother, lover and wife when I am writing. When my daughter was small I wasn't writing as much and I didn't miss it.

I don't like the word 'businesswoman.' Perhaps 'committed mother' would be the best description.

You never feel like you're 100 percent at either one. I don't ever feel like I'm the best actress I can be or the best mother I can be.

I think people find a lot to relate to in my social media, being a mom, and trying to live my best life, and I'm a fan of Oprah and other things people are fans of, and my heart breaks when there are tragedies, like everyone else, and I want to help.

I love acting, but I am a mom, and the roles just weren't coming because of a mixture of things: because I'm not ambitious, and because I'm older, and I had a baby. I really felt like I had said a graceful and completely happy goodbye to acting in a significant way. And I had sort of made my peace with that.

I have two full-time jobs: one of a mother and the other of an actor. Both are equally important, and that's why I'm busy 24x7.

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

I'm a mom. That probably hinders sometimes and helps sometimes. To some people, that makes me more approachable.

All moms need confidants who are in their shoes and can relate to what they're going through. You need a night out together to be who you are, and not feel like you have to be the career woman, wife and mommy--all at once. After all, we're not superwomen.

Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.

Motherhood is more than bearing children...It is the essence of who we are as women.

I just think motherhood made me better, I think it rejuvenates you as a person, mind, body and spirit, and I think every woman is different.