Danielle Steel Quotes

I've got three kids, so there's not much downtime.

It's about getting the kids up and fed, getting one to school, getting the other down for a nap, going to the grocery store, picking one up from school, getting the other one down for another nap, cooking dinner... I live my life at these two extremes. I'm either a full-time stay-at-home mom or a full-time actress.

My life often feels like a whirling dervish of kids, writing, speaking, and pastoral ministry.

By the time the children go to bed, I am as drained as any mother who has spent her day working, car pooling, building Lego castles and shopping for the precisely correct soccer cleat.

I'm a mother. Mothers multi-task.

Our lives are so hectic and full, and we have a big family right now.

I'm not busy... a woman with three children under the age of 10 wouldn't think my schedule looked so busy.

I like to have fun, but I don't have a lot of time for myself. I do have eight kids!

My older sister has four kids and I honestly don't know how she does it.

From early morning to late at night, it's such an interesting life, and I'm healthy and free, and that's not so easy with a family.

Housekeeping is incredibly difficult with three kids. I'm trying to be more relaxed. You'll go insane if you try to have a picture-book house.

Eighty percent of my life is normal like any other mother. I worry about my children, if they're doing all right. I worry that my husband is doing well.

I am a mother, so I'm used to balancing things.

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

My mother was a master juggler. If you ask her, she'll say she was a wreck. There's plenty of screaming that went on in the house, but I think it was necessary just to be heard. There were eight children!

Motherhood has relaxed me in many ways. You learn to deal with crisis. I've become a juggler, I suppose. It's all a big circus, and nobody who knows me believes I can manage, but sometimes I do.

I have a sense of urgency, of time. I am a woman and am always running between work, doctors' appointments, school meetings, filling up the fridge, then going back to work. Like everyone who combines professional and family life, I am always doing several things at the same time.

I don't remember my life before I had children.

Of course having a baby derails the writing process for some time. And I will be the first to say that I have essentially no social life, because there's just nothing left after being a mom, professor, and writer. I used to be big into rock climbing. No more. A lot falls by the wayside.

Modern women - we're very good at keeping ourselves busy. There are PTA meetings, exercising, bake sales at school. I like that my life is not the same every day.

When you're a mom and you have three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I've got other things to deal with.

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

I didn't realise how hard it was to be a mom and keep it all together.

My kindest interpretation of my younger self is, 'Boy, was I busy.' I had two kids, a husband, two stepkids. I mean, how many darn things can a person do at the end of the day?

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