Marcia Gay Harden Quotes

I probably spend more time with my kids than the average stay-at-home mother.

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

What is free time? I'm a single mother. My free moments are filled with loving my little girl.

The bearing, rearing, feeding and educating of children; the running of a house with its thousand details; human relationships with their myriad pulls - women's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life, or contemplative life, or saintly life.

I made a choice to stay home and raise five boys. Believe me, it was hard work.

I do the laundry, cook all the meals, take care of my kids and I love it.

Mum was a teacher before I was born, but never worked after she had kids. She was too busy looking after us and making kedgeree.

I would like to have a family someday, and I can't wait to be a stay-at-home mom.

I'm so happy and thankful I made it a point be a stay-at-home mom.

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 don't want to be an absent mother. Otherwise, why have children?

I'm a mother. Mothers multi-task.

It is a truism that children need more of Mother than of money.

I don't remember my mother ever playing with me. And she was a perfectly good mother. But she had to do the laundry and clean the house and do the grocery shopping.

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 have become a housewife and there is no better job.

I'm a hands-on mum and I'm lucky to be able to be that. I can remember the things my mum used to do with me and that time together is so important.

I took a long time off to have my baby and spend time with my family.

I like this job - most days I have a chance to make breakfast and take the kids to school or to read 'em a bedtime story. It's almost like a normal life.

I'm doing everything in my power to be a great mother. I wish I could be with her throughout the day, because I'm always working, but I make sure that whether it's the morning or nighttime, I make it extra special.

In my neighborhood growing up, 8, 10,12 kids were the norm. Those stay-at-home moms would handle so much physically and emotionally. Even in my early teens, I could tell those ladies were something.

Like some people they're into nannies and the whole social life and they don't spend time with their kids. I'm always with my kids.

Growing up, my mom was a stay-at-home mom. I knew that her entire world revolved around us, and she relished being involved in every school project and every craft.

Being mothers, we try to stay home as much as possible and attend to the children.

I don't neglect my kids. They are my priority. They come on shoots.