Jessica McDonald Quotes

There hasn't been any positive steps for moms in the NWSL. Now we're kind of getting our heads together, getting ideas together, and so now we can start somewhere as moms... Child care is not cheap. And if you look at our paychecks and you look at child care, there goes our paycheck. How are we going to eat?

There are many women with children under five who want to work and who lack affordable, high-quality child care.

I'm particularly fortunate to be in a position where I can bring my child to work and be able to get good child care. Not a lot of women have that.

The most common reason new mothers return to work sooner than they'd like to is because they can't afford to go without their salaries any longer.

It is imperative that women have quality affordable day care available to them because without it, families suffer.

For parents - women in particular - good quality, affordable childcare is vital.

A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship - and you know what, a father does, too. It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a 'Mad Men' episode.

If you're going to send the mothers out into the work force, what are you going to do about the children they leave at home?

We need to do more to support working families, like guarantee access to paid sick and parental leave and make sure every parent has access to quality, affordable child care.

It would be a tragic mistake for Congress ever to adopt any public or tax policy which encourages mothers to assign child care to others and enter the labor force.

There's this idea that motherhood is as American as apple pie, but yet we don't support it with any government assistance.

No parent should have to choose between their job and caring for their child, and no person should miss valuable moments with their loved ones because of work.

In 2013, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, around 64 percent of mothers with children under six worked.

For me as a mom, not an allocated player, there have been some years that have been a difficult journey because NWSL doesn't really support mothers.

The workplace should have a place where the kids can visit. They should have places at the mother's or the father's work where professionals can have their kids visit them whenever they feel like it.

Working moms, stay at home moms, they're both extremely hard jobs.

If a mother is sitting in a chair at the office, someone needs to be at home with her child. In some cases, that is a father. Much of the time, the material manifestation of the conflict is a nanny.

Most families need both parents to work. Moms need to be able to work and earn fair pay and have the flexibility in their jobs to also be primary caretakers.

When I was a single, working mom with a newborn, I learned just how vital it is to have comprehensive, affordable health care.

It's received wisdom that the English are uniquely child-unfriendly.

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

I'm not sure if I want to continue to work when I have kids.

It is true that as you have children, there are a good many months when you don't want to be working full-time. I agree that that's an issue.

Parents today are under a lot of stress, sometimes working two jobs just to make ends meet. They're trying to find day care for their kids and elder care for their own parents. The Federal Government shouldn't add to their worries by not living up to its obligations.

The one big, humongous, immense thing that we didn't change, that we didn't figure out how to deal with is, if men and women are both going to work throughout their lives, who's going to take care of the kids?