Laura Fraser Quotes

Every mom knows it's hard to take care of yourself while you're trying to take care of your children because, when you become a mother, you become so selfless.

I have the greatest respect for working mothers.

I have a special place in my heart for working moms - it's a constant pull on your heartstrings.

It's about getting the kids up and fed, getting one to school, getting the other down for a nap, going to the grocery store, picking one up from school, getting the other one down for another nap, cooking dinner... I live my life at these two extremes. I'm either a full-time stay-at-home mom or a full-time actress.

Motherhood is wonderful, but it's also hard work. It's the logistics more than anything. You discover you have reserves of energy you didn't know you had.

Working moms, stay at home moms, they're both extremely hard jobs.

The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.

I'm a mother. Mothers multi-task.

I never get to go to movies, because I'm a mom.

A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

I'm very lucky because I don't half get some juicy jobs. But I can't tell you the number I've turned down in the past 20 years because I wanted to be at home, looking after my son. There was never any question about that. Alfie and I are dead close. I can't bear it when he's away.

I'm so into momminess.

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 think, now that I am a mother, I look at other mums like Jo Pavey and just mums that go back to work and work incredibly hard, and I have so much admiration and appreciation for how hard it is.

When you become a mother, it's a common thing that you just want to put every ounce of your being into your child, which is a very beautiful experience.

It's tough to be a mother. At any age. It's tough. It's a lot of work.

Nothing can really prepare you for you the sheer overwhelming experience of what it means to become a mother. It is full of complex emotions of joy, exhaustion, love, and worry, all mixed together.

Having a family is really important. And there would be something missing in my life as a woman if I didn't at least attempt to fulfil that side of me. Just for a certain period of your life, to have your sole purpose to be nurturing, feeding and protecting someone else: it's animalistic, isn't it? It's beautiful.

We are child-bearers primarily, and we are the weaker sex, and once we've given birth to our children, our life is by necessity bound to them. I wouldn't advocate it any other way.

I love work, but no job could ever compare with the job of being a mother.

I didn't realise how hard it was to be a mom and keep it all together.

I really enjoy taking care of people, and I was really ready to have a kid, so I didn't have to sacrifice anything that I didn't want to give up.

Every mom I know, whether they're working in the home or working outside the home, they're super women to me.

I take my hat off to working mums and especially single working mums. I honestly don't know how they do it.

I am a simple, ordinary mother.