Gloria Steinem Quotes

I was very strongly influenced by women's magazines and I really believed tha a woman could not be married and raise a family and have a successful career all at the same time.

It's always been really important for me to try to maintain a balanced life, professional and personal, and this was absolutely something that my husband and I had hoped for.

I consider myself very fortunate. I have a beautiful wife who supports my work and is raising our daughter when I'm out on the road.

I am all for career, whether pre- or post-marriage.

My professional life has been about public service. My personal life I define very intently through my family.

I dedicated almost 12 years to the music industry before having children.

On the one hand, I am a businesswoman - on the other, a wife and a mother. Like many women, I have had to distribute time and attention between business and family. It is not at all easy to find that balance.

I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.

When you get married and have children, and you start having hits and success and your business starts growing, there's less and less time for songwriting.

I don't mind talking about my family and how to balance it all. But, in today's world, we should probably be asking both women and men about work and family and how to balance the two.

Believe me, I recognize the cultural and anatomical challenges and respect the sacrifices women make in order to balance family and a career, or family with no career, or career with no family.

Through my whole career, that's been a major thing - bringing my family with me.

It seemed that I was more interested in raising my children, not in pursuing my husbands.

I had tried to write about young women in London who had jobs and boyfriends, and it was so tedious.

Being married has not affected my career at all other than just making me happier to be on the road.

You don't bring your wife to work.

After a hard day's work on the sets, I can't imagine allotting time to pander to the whims of a husband.

My marriage and my career are my two top priorities.

Some days my husband Derek and I barely have time for a conversation about anything apart from the business of life - who's picking up who and who's cooking dinner.

I love being a mum but I do love to work too.

I think the main thing that I've learned while working on 'Let's Stay Together' is how to balance mommyhood and working.

In interviews I gave early on in my career, I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a dynamic job, marriage, and children. In some respects, I was a social adolescent.

At every stage of my career I have had interesting and cordial colleagues, some of whom are close friends.

Who can worry about a career? Have a life.

I take pride in taking care of all the housework so that my wife, who works as a designer for Martha Stewart, won't need to sacrifice any of her leisure time when she gets home.