Charisma Carpenter Quotes

Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing.

I'm a working mom. I've been working since I was 14 years old.

I'm raised by a single mom and didn't have pops around for the most part of my life. And she, by any means necessary, gave me the best opportunities that she knew how to give me.

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 want to work, but being a mom is my No. 1 priority.

My mom had five kids. And she came home after working three jobs, and I'd rub her feet. We'd all rub her feet. We were lucky to get any time with her.

My mother raised three kids on her own, so I was taught that to be a working mom was a good thing.

I know how to do anything, I'm a mom.

I was a single mom.

I was a single mother when my child was little.

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

I love being a single mom. But it's definitely different when you're dating.

I'm not a figurehead for anything. I was a single mom with two kids. What else was I going to do? It was either be in a band or be a waitress.

I was born and raised in East Los Angeles by a single mom who had three biological kids and adopted four more. I never met my dad.

I'm really grateful for my mom. And my mom always raised me being a single mother. Being a single mother, a lot of stress comes with that. You gotta work, you gotta come home and do everything.

I was sort of getting used to being a single mom, maybe a little too used to it.

My grandmother - my inspiration - was a single mom with nine kids, and she helped raise me.

You instantly become less selfish. You can't be the biggest person in the world anymore-they are. [Motherhood] really grounds you.

I never worried about raising a kid on my own.

I grew up and learnt to hold my own. My mum was doing two people's jobs. It makes you grow up early. There's less people to talk to, less close people, innit? You're going to end up being lonely because you think a bit more.

I thought running for Congress paled in comparison to being a parent and being a mom - especially a single mom of three kids.

There are so many single moms and dads out there, and we are all just trying to pick up the pieces together. It's hard.

I kept working during my campaign because I needed to feed my family. As a single mom of three kids, I have a lot of child care that I needed to juggle, and I was a first-time candidate.

Your mom's working 9 to 5 every day and might get a second job. So you're really raising yourself, and you've got nobody else, so you go outside, and the streets raised most of us.

I think to have a regular job and be a mom is not as, of course there are challenges, but it's not like being on set.