Nancy Travis Quotes

A lot of young actresses have a hard time combining a reasonable love life with a career.

A woman must combine the role of mother, wife and politician.

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

I really want to play interesting roles, but you want to work, so it's a balancing game.

When you're in your 30s and actively pursuing a career and a home life, a wife and children, you're busy doing as opposed to busy thinking. As you get older, even as you don't have as much time, I think you tend to think more and reflect more on what is happening in your own life.

The theatre show-biz types don't change much, no matter what era we're in. The question of how you balance being in show business with your personal life isn't very different.

The daunting task of being a mother, a wife, and an independent career or professional person is really taxing.

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 don't want to impose rules on people, but you have only a short window, and you're sorely mistaken if you think you can put off having a family. It's very hard to find a good man, and it's never a 'good time' to have a baby if you have a career.

I think it's very empowering to be able to have a career and to be a mother. It gives you an amazing sense of self.

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.

Many women assume they can't be good mothers and have challenging careers at the same time, so they might give up trying to do both as they get to a crucial point in their career. Although it can be hard at times, it's important for women to recognize the benefits of working outside the home.

I've never wanted to be a lady who lunches - I've always wanted to be a woman who works.

It's really hard juggling, trying to carve out a time to have a family and be a mom and have a career, especially a creative career.

I think I've learned to balance life and career.

I was so focused on advancing in my career that I didn't have enough emotional capacity for dating.

Family and personal life always come first and career second.

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

Both Sheena and I are working parents, and we know how hard it is to balance work and parenting.

I stand here as the mother of three children, who knows firsthand how difficult it can be to combine family and a career.

I'm just a normal mother with the same struggles as any other mother who's trying to do everything at once and trying to be a wife and maintain a relationship. There's absolutely nothing perfect about my life, but I just try hard.

It's very hard trying to have love and a career at the same time. For those who can, great, but I can't.

I feel like I'm at a level in my business where I've established myself as a professional. And the one thing I haven't managed to do is find a way to achieve a better balance.

To lunch with the important ... that should be the daily goal of those for whom life is not a playground but a ladder.

Sometimes it just seems that love is not enough, does it?