Sara Shepard Quotes

I found myself trying to be all things to all people. I felt a tremendous sense of responsibility and the pressure of expectation.

Sometimes it can feel like there are a billion people on my shoulders.

I got a lot happening, a whole lot, and it's not always easy being me.

Fame is a lot of pressure, especially when you're responsible for your entire family. Financially, emotionally - everything.

You can't just carry everyone else's hopes and fears around in your backpack and expect to stand up straight.

What I have in common with the character in 'Truman' is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

It is exhausting knowing that most of the time the phone rings, most of the time there's an email, most of the time there's a letter, someone wants something of you.

Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.

I felt I had to solve everyone's problems.

Sometimes you can't prioritise family and you feel guilty.

For now, for this year, I need to be a good mother.

Motherhood is like a big sleeping bag of guilt.

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 never feel like I should have any time free.

I love being a part of the family and all that. I can't complain about it.

I've got tons more stuff to do.

Everybody's got high expectations for me. I just don't want to let anybody down.

I feel like people expect a lot from me.

Most everyone I know feels frazzled and overwhelmed most of the time.

It seems like I don't have a lot of time for all the things I need to do. I'm spreading myself fairly thin. I have responsibilities to my children. I have a big staff that works for me. And when you have a staff, and I'm sure you know this, you're always concerned with everybody's life all the time.

What I have done is yours; what I have to do is yours; being part in all I have, devoted yours.

Every new promise was like something heavy I had to carry, with no place to put anything down.

You'd have to be kind of a bonehead not to feel pressure.

A family is everybody all together.

Things are gradually falling into place on top of me.