Daniela Ruah Quotes

I haven't really given much thought to the whole 'working mother' thing.

I work hard and try to combine a demanding career with motherhood.

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

When my daughter Zulekha was born, I was at the pinnacle of my working life as a model, and I pulled myself in two trying to cope with being both a mother and a career girl.

I want to work, but the balance to find between working and being a mom is challenging.

I had children very young. You go through a period of immense guilt about being a working mother.

I have been a working mom as long as I've been a mom.

I definitely love to work, and I'm loving being a mommy, so I'd like to try to balance both.

For me, I may have titles like CEO, director or vice chairman but the best title for me is 'working mother.'

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

The women that inspire me are the ones who have careers and children; why would I want to limit myself? I've always wanted to have children, and I would never give up that experience for a career. I want to have it all.

My first job now is as a mother, everything else is secondary. My kids understand that I am an actress, and they are always so surprised to hear my voice on a cartoon character, or see my face on a video box. If it ever gets to be too much though, the career and the kids, I will simply set the career aside.

I feel like I'm a stay-at-home mom, which I was for the five years before this. She's absolutely been my focus. That's the choice I made. Desperate Housewives is perfect for me. I get to go back to work and still be able to take my daughter to school and pick her up.

I don't think children have competed with my career, they have clarified it. My children ground me. They make me honest.

I was fortunate enough to have my kids early, so being a mom always ended up being a better gig than these other parts that came along. So I always justified not really working a lot because I had a family.

I chose to be a working wife and mother. Why should I compromise on either?

Passion has always been important to me. That won't change. What changes in a woman's perspective. I mean, I have two kids now. I'm a single parent balancing motherhood and my career. That changes the equation.

I feel like I'm one of the many working mothers. And I only have one child. I know working mums who have three or four. It's definitely a challenge but it's a wonderful challenge to be able to do both.

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.

The fact that a woman is attached to her professional life should not prevent her from being a mother.

It was never something that I thought put me in a good light, that I was a working mom.

I have this wonderful schedule where I work full-time and also get to be a full-time mom.

You don't have to wait for your career to take off to become a mum: that's kind of what I want to show. Becoming a mum made me even more driven, and I think it doesn't stop your career - it just boosts it. It makes you well-organised, and with a little bit of sacrifice, of course you can do it all.

I really believe that I've been a better parent from being a working mother.

I'm trying to have a family and a career.