Jane Pauley Quotes

I certainly know what it is like to go to work and leave your baby at home. It is an ache that only other mothers can understand. I always say that it feels like you've left a limb at home. And I really struggled for the first few months of work. There were times when I shut myself in my room and cried.

My mother was a working woman, and I was alone a lot. So I wanted to be a stay-at-home mom.

Most of us in the baby-boom generation were raised by full-time mothers. Even as recently as 14 years ago, 6 out of 10 mothers with babies were staying at home. Today that is totally reversed. Does that mean we love our children less than our mothers loved us? No, but it certainly causes a lot of guilt trips.

Antiques Roadshow' was the first job I had taken since my children were born that took me away from them consistently over a period of time. That was a big adjustment for all of us.

It's always hard - it's a little counterintuitive to leave your baby at any point during the infancy.

I don't want to judge, but I've also met women who think it's cool to be out or away from their baby, and I don't get that.

I'm a mother. Mothers multi-task.

I'm the oldest of six children and I had my own first baby when I was 23. So I've always been interested in babies, and I had lots of opportunities to watch them.

I don't remember my mother ever playing with me. And she was a perfectly good mother. But she had to do the laundry and clean the house and do the grocery shopping.

I think I would make a lousy stay-at-home mom. It just wouldn't suit me.

Career is important, but nothing really supersedes my roles as a mother.

A lot of mothers want to be with their children. They can't afford it for this reason or that reason.

I happen to find motherhood a very natural state, but I know a lot of other people don't.

But for me, I knew that if I had a baby, I would have to take care of that baby, and I wouldn't have been happy with a nanny taking care of my baby and walking into the room and having my child run across the room to another woman.

A baby comes with such responsibility. Once you become a mother, you always have a guilt trip. You always try to do the best, but you feel you can always be better.

I'm happy that I took time off to become a mom and raise my daughter properly and build a bond between the two of us.

My mother worked when I was growing up, so I was under the impression I'd find it easy to be a working mum. But I found it very hard to be away from my family, even for short periods of time.

I, as a mom, wanted to be really present for my son in the first couple of years, because I know that those years are very important for a kid. So I decided not to work during that period.

I prefer doing work that projects me as a woman and a mother.

I have the greatest respect for working mothers.

I just don't believe that a woman is naturally closer to her child than a man. Not at all.

There was no way I was going to have a baby and hand him over to a nanny.

A sick child is always the mother's property; her own feelings generally make it so.

The mother...swinging the children by pulling on a length of string, while at the same time she kept and eye on them with that protective watchfulness, half animal, half angelic, which is the quality of motherhood.

Life is only lived full-time by women with children.