Ayelet Shaked Quotes

I think it's possible to be a great mother and have a successful career. I like that more women are doing this.

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

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

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.

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

I try to be as full-time mommy as possible and also full-time working woman. That is the example I grew up with. Working mommy but also very present.

I wanted a family, but before I had a family, I was a career person. I've tried to marry those two things, and sometimes it is successful, and sometimes it is not.

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.

I love making movies, but I was ready to rationalize being only a mother if my career never got back on track.

I think you can have your career and still bring to your family something very, very special. There are some people who are born mothers, who don't want to work and just want to stay at home, and that's fantastic, but for me it was something very difficult.

I like being a mother, and I want to be involved in my work, so I have to make choices. If you're a film actress, your career is from 20 to 45, but you can still dream.

People always ask is it hard being an entrepreneur and a mum, and the answer is 'yes.'

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 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.

I always wanted to have a really successful career, but I always wanted to be a mom, too.

It's about maintaining balance. Plan better, be organised. I chose to be a working wife and mother. Why should I compromise on either?

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 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.

When Kelly was born, I thought seriously about retirement. But I wanted to see if it was possible to mix being a mother with tennis and the two combined very well.

I think to have a regular job and be a mom is not as, of course there are challenges, but it's not like being on set.

When I was growing up my mom was home. She wanted to go to work, but she waited. She was educated as a teacher. The minute my youngest sister went to school full-time, from first grade, mom went back to work. But she balanced her life. She chose teaching, which enabled her to leave at the same time we left, and come home pretty much the same time we came home. She knew how to balance.

It definitely puts a strain on family life - I miss them like mad. Being a working mother I've been juggling house and career from day one. I want to hold out for telly for the second half of the year.