Denise Austin Quotes

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.

It's hard to balance work and family.

I've tried my very best to keep all the balls in the air and be home.

We are all trying to balance our careers and children and give as much of ourselves and our time to them. You work and have a husband, and projects, and friends. It is a balancing act.

My life often feels like a whirling dervish of kids, writing, speaking, and pastoral ministry.

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.

The balancing act of motherhood and a career, and being a wife, is something that I don't think I'll ever perfect, but I love the challenge of it.

By the time I get done with my fans and my music and my kids and my family and my fiance and my horses, well, they suffer too, but, I don't really have much time left to do anything else.

On a piece of prose, you have to work at least six hours a day. I don't know how you can do that and teach and raise a kid and paint the house.

TaskRabbit is really my first baby. So balancing the second child is something I've tackled, but I'm really passionate about what I do, and then I'm passionate about coming home and putting my baby to bed.

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

I have a sense of urgency, of time. I am a woman and am always running between work, doctors' appointments, school meetings, filling up the fridge, then going back to work. Like everyone who combines professional and family life, I am always doing several things at the same time.

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

My advice to moms that have to go to work is to just be easy on yourself and know that you're doing the best you can.

Now, I have a kid, I have businesses to take care of, I have to travel. I have to sit down... and find a little time for me.

The only thing that I stress out about is, how am I going to make sure that I balance out my time for motherhood?

It's just easy to be a mother and an actress in the same time: you just have to have a good organization, and everything is just fine.

We take each week as it comes; we're juggling just like everybody else. It's all about spinning plates.

I used to work until two in the morning every night, then still get up at six. Now, I have to help my daughter with her homework, spend time with my wife.

I'm always saying to myself, there aren't enough hours in the day, which I think any working mum says to herself.

How am I supposed to be a mom to two kids, a wife and do a show every night? It's impossible!

I'm like any working mom.

From early morning to late at night, it's such an interesting life, and I'm healthy and free, and that's not so easy with a family.

I try to balance it out on the whole. Being a mum is always the priority. Next, it's taking care of yourself. Right now, I get to only work two days a week - it's a dream. I can't imagine how hard it is for mothers who work 40 hours a week.

I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies.