Betty Ford Quotes

I pretty much live about 10 minutes from my office. I have two kids, and I have about 8 projects that I'm working on, so I basically just get up and go to work, and go home every night and play with my kids, so I don't really know.

My ambition is to not have to work any more. In 10 years I want to stop, and I want to be living with my family, taking care of my house. I want to be a housewife.

For me, having it all doesn't mean having the corner office at work and a penthouse at home if there aren't kids running around as I'm trying to cook my husband something special.

My job means I work late.

I have the life of Riley. I take my kids to school, do a bit of work in the afternoon, pick my kids up, microwave a meal, hang out with my kids, and work for a couple of hours.

My dream life is just to go back to my job full-time. And be with my family. You know, regular dreams, common dreams that everyone has.

If I'm just at the White House, I have meetings in my office, I sign letters, I plan different things. Late in the afternoon, I'll quit working and wait for my husband to get home.

I never want to work. Even when you're presented with these great opportunities, I think, 'I really love being in my pajamas with the kids.'

People always ask me, 'Why did your wife take that extra job?' What they don't know is that four out of five days a week she's going to be home having dinner with us by five o'clock.

If I work 60 hours a week, for example, and I make much more money than someone who works 40 hours a week, is my standard of living higher? I suppose it depends on your values. If I do not have time, because I work 60 hours a week, to spend time with my children, I may not consider myself to have a high standard of living.

I wanted to stay on TV because I've got kids who are school-aged, so I get to see them most days as opposed to going away for movies months and months at a time.

I have made a choice to fully enjoy my kids and this particular season of my life. It's a very conscious, powerful decision. In some ways, it takes more guts to buck the financial rewards and adulation that come from a professional career to pursue something so culturally undervalued as at-home motherhood.

I have not left the house after 6 o'clock without a paycheck for years.

I suffer mightily at the 7 A.M. calls. I'm happy as a clam on the 7 P.M. calls.

Although I have a busy work schedule, I make sure I spend time with my family and create a balance between my work and family life.

I arrange it by working four days away from home, and three days at home with the family, so I work four long days rather than five shorter. But it's hard because everything is on hold. We have to restore the family life during the weekends.

We spend less time with each other now than we did during the presidency. When you're president, you're usually out and back in the same day - at least I was. I just came from a trip to the Middle East last week, where I was gone for five nights, and when I left, Laura [Bush] was out of town.

I take commissions because I know I'll have to get up early in the morning and work.

I love to go on the field, and I want to score 100 goals every game, if I can. But it's also my job, and when I finish my job, I have a life. I have a family.

Work does affect my personal life, as it consumes most of my time. It takes away a lot from my family time.

I told my mom for years that I wanted to be a manicurist, and she'd always be like, 'But what if you went to college and you got a degree?' She'd try to explain how I could actually do a thing that would make me a ton of money, or that I didn't have to just pick the business that was closest to our house.

If work came along I liked, I would do it. If it interfered with home life for too long or took me away, I wouldn't.

I like working. But now I have a deal with my wife that I take a half-day off each week.

I guess I am working pretty much all the time.

You love what you do but it's still a job and you are limited in the time to earn money and you think about it if someone makes you a crazy offer.