Gretchen Carlson Quotes

I have two children. I gave up a lot for my career, but I'm very happy for it. I've done what I've always thought was best for me and my family.

My family responsibilities don't conflict with my career. Not at all.

I said to myself, 'I've waited a long time in my life to have a child, and I'm missing it, I want to continue to have a career, but not this way.'

Just because you have a baby on your hip - or one on the way or two at home - doesn't mean you can't go after your dreams.

I definitely love to work, and I'm loving being a mommy, so I'd like to try to balance both.

Luckily because I had a family and children, my priorities changed. I mean, I'm very passionate about my work but I have other interests and other things that balance my life.

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

The women that inspire me are the ones who have careers and children; why would I want to limit myself? I've always wanted to have children, and I would never give up that experience for a career. I want to have it all.

The time I'm not spending with my kid has to be worth it, so when I sat down with my agents after I was ready to go back to work, I told them: It's all about the directors.

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.

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

For me, at least, all of my career goals, all of my focus, everything just shifted and the importance was my children, and that's where all the joy came from as well.

It's really hard juggling, trying to carve out a time to have a family and be a mom and have a career, especially a creative career.

From a very young age, I had this idea that if you are very successful in your career, and you're giving all of your attention to that, then your family life... possibly will not flourish as it might.

I work hard and try to combine a demanding career with motherhood.

The mother who stays home instead of working sacrifices her aspirations and career to ensure that her child is well taken care of.

The truth is that I love working. I love my kids. But I don't view one as evil and the other as good. I need to work to be a happy person, to be a good parent.

I'm trying to have a family and a career.

My dream is to have a family, hopefully while still working.

I stand here as the mother of three children, who knows firsthand how difficult it can be to combine family and a career.

I think the main thing that I've learned while working on 'Let's Stay Together' is how to balance mommyhood and working.

I love performing, but I never really liked show business. My success is my family. I want to be more successful as a mother.

I want to work as hard as I can. But I also want six kids! It takes a lot of courage as an actor to take time off for family. But family is everything.

Birdie is amazing and such an incredible child and I'm having such a great time being a mom but I still want to have a career and I still look forward to auditions and parts, and when I don't get them I'm disappointed.

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.