Mercedes Schlapp Quotes

I'm like any working mom.

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

I realize that I was being the kind of parent that I thought my daughter needed. I was a good role model for her on what a working mom can do.

I'm a single parent, a working mother, an executive, and an author. My greatest accomplishment will be to raise three wonderful children.

My priority is my son and my husband, and I have a lot of spinning plates, so I try to make sure they're not one of them.

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

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

I think it is important for working moms to recognize that family is the most important.

I try to balance it out on the whole. Being a mum is always the priority. Next, it's taking care of yourself. Right now, I get to only work two days a week - it's a dream. I can't imagine how hard it is for mothers who work 40 hours a week.

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'm the father of three daughters, and they're all highly trained professionals. Two of them are mothers, and the other one wants to be at some point.

My view on issues is based on common sense, and my experience as a mother of four children, as a sole parent, and as a businesswoman running a fish and chip shop.

Naturally, I'm conservative; I'm a Republican. I always was.

Acting's not my whole life. My children definitely come first.

I want to be more successful as a mother than I am in show business.

I think my children know that Mother's priority is to be with them first. But I don't think it has to be an either/or situation. Work is very important to me, and it wouldn't be in the best interest of my children for me to stay home seven days a week.

I think it's a tough road if you're a stay-at-home mom, a working mom, if you have a partner, if you don't. It's the best job in the world, and the toughest job in the world all at the same time.

There are 80 million moms in the United States. Forty million stay at home with their children.

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

I'm happy going home early and working out and just being a mother and being a wife.

It's so hard to be a mother and to also want to practice your art.

My heart grows every day through struggling and love of my kids. It helps balance everything else - the work and the world. It helps keep me grounded and in perspective of what is really meaningful to me.

I'm a mother, and that's really important. Today, the mother and the musician can sit next to each other. Even when the musician is out there in full swing, the mother doesn't get switched off.

Single mothers are raising more of America's children than ever before.

My biggest project right now is trying to be a really great mom and learning how to balance family and career. I'm just trying to spend as much time with my family as I can.