Prue Leith Quotes

I'm almost a full-time mom.

Any other woman who has to go to work and pick up the kids and make dinner - that's way harder than what I have to do.

Yeah, I could go rock on the back porch and do crossword puzzles - but I've got six kids, ages 9 to 16, and someone in the family should work. That's me.

If I had a choice about going to a meeting at a studio or changing a nappy, I'd choose the nappy.

The bearing, rearing, feeding and educating of children; the running of a house with its thousand details; human relationships with their myriad pulls - women's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life, or contemplative life, or saintly life.

Full time politics is a difficult road. Most women have a home and children to attend to. Whether you're in Glasgow or Ohio. it's tough for women.

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

I rarely need career advice because I don't have a career. No, that's not true. I can't really go far away while my kids are living with me.

For women of my generation, it was the 'juggling act.' Jobs, marriage, children, homes, and aging parents were the balls we added, tossing them in the air as our lives filled up and praying they wouldn't come crashing down on our heads.

I don't see how a woman in documentary photography could have children. I think it's a very difficult thing to do to raise a family, and I have enormous respect for people who do it. I'd hate to do something like that and not be good at it.

I think it's a tough road if you're a stay-at-home mom, a working mom, if you have a partner, if you don't. It's the best job in the world, and the toughest job in the world all at the same time.

My judgement is not good when I am on a book tour. I am not thinking about it that much. What happens is I will go back home. I have a 4-year-old and a 1-year-old and a wife who is now taking care of them who is wondering where her husband is.

My deal is that I pay more attention to whatever job I have than the relationships I have. Now, if I had considered my job to be a wife and mother, then I would have been pretty good at it. But I didn't consider it a job. I thought it was like brushing your teeth - it's not fun, it's just something you do to keep your teeth from falling out.

There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children.

I don't like to be gone all weekend and at night too. Because for 20 years, I've had children who are in school.

I'm doing less than I used to because I'm a family man now, and I have two kids.

In the period where I had to live the life of a citizen - a life where, like everybody else, I did tons of laundry and cleaned toilet bowls, changed hundreds of diapers and nursed children - I learned a lot.

Do you want to be an artist and a writer, or a wife and a lover? With kids, your focus changes. I don't want to go to PTA meetings.

If I could, I would have my son on tour the whole time. But he has school, summer camp, and he has to see his mother.

I probably spend more time with my kids than the average stay-at-home mother.

I was writing and I have three kids. I was occupying my time with them but it was difficult.

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.

I've never been a hands-on dad. I'm not ashamed to admit it, but you can't run a restaurant and be home for tea at 4:30 and bath and change nappies.

Sometimes I do envision just being a stay at home mom but not working isn't an option for me currently.

I'm taking care of the children, doing a bit of cooking and trying to do a bit of DIY around the house. But that's not going too well.