Pamela Adlon Quotes

So, the total number of hours spent on the stuff you have to do to take care of a family, working and caring for stuff at home, the total number of hours is actually about the same for mothers and fathers.

My earliest memories of my mom were of her multi-tasking - preparing dinner while checking on homework and housework; clearing the dinner plates while setting out bowls for breakfast; making sure we ate our breakfast while lining up bread, lunch meats, apples, and snacks assembly-line style so we could make our lunches.

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

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

I believe that at least 70 percent of parenting goes to the mother. In our house, I'm the one who knows about all the school stuff, helps with the homework, organizes the play dates, and remembers the birthday parties.

Being a mother adds an enormous amount of stress to your life. You need to make sure you're there for everything.

Having children is a huge responsibility, and I just don't want to hand them off to a nanny or my mom to take care of them.

I've raised Michael. I changed his diapers when he was little.

When you're not a mom, you can get up in the middle of the night, paint, sleep all morning... you can't do that when you have two children!

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

I drive the car pool - I show up with no makeup and drive the kids to school.

The thing about dads is, even when they're very good, they don't do anything like as much as most mums do.

Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.

I think it's a tough road if you're a stay-at-home mom, a working mom, if you have a partner, if you don't. It's the best job in the world, and the toughest job in the world all at the same time.

There are 80 million moms in the United States. Forty million stay at home with their children.

I'd just as soon stay home and raise babies.

I'm simply the mom who makes the lunch, drives to school, finds where the toys are, washes the clothes, and I'm here to play. And that's all I should be.

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 had two children. I had a nanny to manage my kids.

Working mothers do an hour more per day than working fathers do and working mothers do on average an hour more per day with the kids than working fathers do.

I'm a mother. Mothers multi-task.

But of course when people watch morning television, Terry, it's a very different animal. You know, they're running around, they're getting their kids ready for school, they're probably doing eight million things, they're brushing their teeth.

I know it's a lot harder for women who don't have enough help, but the truth is, no matter how much money you have, if you want to stay involved with your children and don't want to lose being a primary parent to them, you're still in the game.

A mother's got to be there to raise the children. That's all there is to it. I feel badly for those mothers who work hard, and can't do it all the time.

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.