Rachael Ray Quotes

After Mason was born, I'd feel guilty doing anything that wasn't related to work.

I am a marathon worker and marathon mother. I'll spend three or four days completely swallowed up by work. And if I make it home in time to say good night, I may have one good hour with the girls, maybe a brief family dinner or a family walk with the dog, and then it is back on the computer to prepare for tomorrow's shows.

I don't work all the time. That's why I waited to have children until I was ready for that. I try to organise my time according to them because they need me. I don't want to put my work first anymore because it's not as important as my children.

Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children, you're thinking about working.

Being a mom is hard, I think a lot of working moms feel that way.

I often feel very guilty because of the time that I spend outside of my home and the little time that sometimes I have for my kids.

A lot of mums are torn between their work and missing out on important milestones in their children's lives.

When I was working actively, I used to be in the studios for 12 hours. I didn't have any time for my family.

I love my work, but there is no price you can put on what you miss when you are away from your kids.

I worked so much when my first son was born that I missed a lot.

I think it is important for working moms to recognize that family is the most important.

I'm almost a full-time mom.

I think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt, working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids!

I probably would like to do more than I do, because I love working, but I can't work more than I work because I have to do some facetime with the family, and the work that I do is just all-encompassing.

I'm not willing to spend too much time away from my kids, so I usually don't work that much.

I want to work, but being a mom is my No. 1 priority.

There are days when I struggle with wanting to be a full-time, stay-at-home mom, and feeling guilty about that because I work.

My biggest project right now is trying to be a really great mom and learning how to balance family and career. I'm just trying to spend as much time with my family as I can.

You can still love your job and feel guilty. You can still love your child and feel guilty. There's a lot of grey in that. It's about being conscious when you are spending time with your kids, being with them in the moment.

I think every mother feels that the best place for their child is with their mum, but you want things for yourself, too. So, you're either at work feeling guilty, or you are at home feeling frustrated.

I honestly wondered how on earth I would manage to combine work and motherhood.

I turned down a movie this summer because it was nine weeks in Vancouver and my oldest daughter is 14. I've got four more summers with her. I'm not giving away nine weeks of her summer to go do a silly movie.

Working moms commonly testify that they feel guilty when they are away from their children and guilty when they are not at their jobs. Devoted fathers certainly miss their children deeply, but it does not seem to be with the same gnawing, primal anxiety that often afflicts women.

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

Every single second of every single day... I don't know if I feel like a bad mom, but at the end of the day I'm always plagued with, 'Did I do enough? Should I go in a different direction?'