Carol Bartz Quotes

I think birth and motherhood are not things that you're trained to do. You might have a good example in your own mum, but nobody teaches you how to be a really great mum.

Having lived a full and stimulating life before I had my kids, I've relished every minute I've had to spend with them and felt a degree of confidence in dealing with their trials and tribulations to date.

You don't take a class; you're thrown into motherhood and learn from experience.

I'm a much better mother at 46... than if I were like, 21 or 25.

The most important experience for learning to be a mother is your own mom's experience.

Being a mother adds another emotional dimension, a feel for children that I didn't have before I had one. They were a pain before.

I have very smart parents. I feel I learned a lot from both of my parents and life experience.

Being a mother is the ultimate training ground for anything.

I'm learning every day, and I have been since the minute I became a mom.

Before I was a mother, when I played characters that were mothers, I used my imagination, of course.

However global I strove to become in my thinking over the past twenty years, my sons kept me rooted to an utterly pedestrian view,intimately involved with the most inspiring and fractious passages in human development. However unconsciously by now, motherhood informs every thought I have, influencing everything I do. More than any other part of my life, being a mother taught me what it means to be human.

It's [motherhood] the biggest on-the-job- training program in existence today.

What writing ROOM taught me was that I know exactly how to be the perfect mother, but I'm not willing to do it for more than ten minutes at a time.

I hope, what I hope the most is to be more successful as a mother than in show business, because to be a mother is the most difficult I will ever have to do.

It is a fundamental truth that the responsibilities of motherhood cannot be successfully delegated. No, not to day-care centers, not to schools, not to nurseries, not to babysitters.

I had a dozen years to act before starting a family, then found that motherhood dwarfed everything else. Once or twice a year, I take a project that appeals to me for its redeeming social value.

I'm almost a full-time mom.

A child's first teacher is its mother.

I think being a parent is the most challenging thing you do. That's why we're here. It's at the heart of what it is to be a human being. It's the ultimate experience because it questions everything about who you are. But it's difficult.

When I was young, I thought I wouldn't be a good mother. Now I think I would be, but I'm too long in the tooth.

In raising children, life brings forth those things where you do what you should never have done and what I taught you never to do. And when my kids have done those things, I just kind of look at them and say, 'Now you know life.'

Nobody teaches you to be a father. Nobody teaches you to be a husband. Nobody teaches you how to be a star. You have to learn to work with the tools.

The only thing that I can do is know that I have great confidence in raising children and being a great mother.

Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

I said I would get better with each baby, and I have.