Jane Clayson Quotes

I'm used to getting up at 7, getting breakfast, getting the kids off to school, and doing the mommy thing and the wife thing and the daughter thing.

I've found that motherhood helps you figure out what absolutely needs to be done and what doesn't. You just learn to do everything quicker and quicker - your style and your makeup gets more refined and generally easier.

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.

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

I am endlessly busy, bringing up five young kids, and trying to keep up with the three older ones. I still spend most of my life driving car pools.

I get up at 6 A.M., and sometimes I make lunch for my two youngest kids. Usually my oldest sleeps late, and I get my kids out the door to school. For years, it was me just doing all of that and then driving to a carpool or this or that.

On 'Black-ish,' I like my makeup to be really natural - so much that I can do it myself. My character is a mother of four and a doctor and a wife, who would not have time to be putting on eyeshadow or curling her lashes.

It's just easy to be a mother and an actress in the same time: you just have to have a good organization, and everything is just fine.

Usually, if I have a day to write, I will spend the first hour thinking about how I am going to structure my day. I will also spend time helping my kids to get ready for school. Then I spend an hour making and eating breakfast, because balanced nutrition has suddenly become very important.

I still wake up every day and take my kids to school. It's supposed to be this way.

On a piece of prose, you have to work at least six hours a day. I don't know how you can do that and teach and raise a kid and paint the house.

I can honestly say that my abortion was one of the least difficult decisions of my life. I'm not being flippant when I say it took me longer to decide what worktops to have in the kitchen than whether I was prepared to spend the rest of my life being responsible for a further human being.

It isn't unusual to see children climb into a car every morning to be ferried to the front door of a school that's just a few blocks away.

Fortunately, when you're a mom, the responsibility of caring for your child can keep you going.

I, personally, like to get dressed and then do my makeup and hair in about five minutes.

I had been carpooling kids for 33 years.

Nothing comes before my children. I find that putting everything else in order of importance also helps to get everything done.

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

I'm a hockey coach and a single mother of two who commutes. I don't watch TV. I watch news, and that's it!

It seems to me I spent my life in car pools, but you know, that's how I kept track of what was going on.

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.

I get up at six to work out. I've done it since school, it's always been part of my life. It's a good way to take the edge off. I like getting up early; I've got a daughter, I'm a single dad.

As a writer and a mom, I wish I could split into two or three different people so I could be with my kids all day, write all day, and go out and do the interviews all day. Multiplicity woman!

As an adult and a parent, when I'm not acting, I'm not acting. I'm being a parent, and I'm on the school run, and I'm sewing labels onto socks. That's what I'm doing.