Noma Dumezweni Quotes

I'm one of the lucky few who never had to face the whole 'Oh, you've had a baby, and now work will have to suffer' bit. It just wasn't a big deal when I got married and had a baby.

I'm proud to be Secretary of Labor. But I'm even prouder of two more important titles: dad and husband. I've been able to be all three. I want all working people, no matter what their jobs are, to be able to meet their obligations both at work and at home.

If the feminist program goes to pieces on the arrival of the first baby, it's false and useless.

The reason my kids come to the set is so I can actually see them.

The Chili Peppers have a real strict two-week on/two-week off policy - aside from me, everybody has families.

Maternity leave and parental leave is absolutely vital for strengthening families. It's an issue for men and women.

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.'

We need more women and moms in Congress — both in the House and in the Senate. So we should make sure that the congressional workplace reflects the needs of working moms. The House allows children on the House floor, and I believe it should be allowed in the Senate too. My kids, and having all three of them while serving in the House, have made me a better legislator. Being a mom makes politics real.

If you want to have high-powered career women who have families, you need to provide options for them in terms of childcare.

From a personal perspective, I am so looking forward to my new role as a parent. But I am equally focused on my job and responsibilities as prime minister.

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

In interviews I gave early on in my career, I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a dynamic job, marriage, and children. In some respects, I was a social adolescent.

As a partner in a firm full of women who work outside of the home as well as stay at home mothers, all with plenty of children, gender equality is not a talking point for me. It is an issue I live every day.

Employee fathers need to step up to the plate and put their family needs on the table.

I have a child and I don't want to be at work all the time when he's small. I want to spend time with him.

I'm particularly fortunate to be in a position where I can bring my child to work and be able to get good child care. Not a lot of women have that.

Being a chef isn't the ideal career to intersect with parenting, but I try to be in my kids' lives as much as possible.

It is easy but inaccurate to label any legislation which makes it easier for working families to combine family and work responsibilities 'job killers.'

The purpose of The Motherhood Manifesto is mothers really need to be given the ability to parent.

There's also, I think more so in the music business and especially for women, this ceiling that people put on you if you have children or a family and decide to spend time with them.

I'm looking forward to being a mom and a wife and a business owner.

The fact that a woman is attached to her professional life should not prevent her from being a mother.

I haven't really given much thought to the whole 'working mother' thing.

Throughout my 20s and early 30s, I had jobs that I loved. I worked in city government. I ran a youth organization. I served as an associate dean at a university. And I couldn't imagine how a baby would fit into all of that.

I am no different from so many professionals who go on maternity leave only towards the end of their pregnancy.