Mia Sara Quotes

I'm so happy and thankful I made it a point be a stay-at-home mom.

I love being a mother; I hate being a housewife - the cooking, the laundry - because it takes away time I could be with my kids.

I'm very boring. I'm a mom. I'm 34 years old.

I'm a real stay-at-home mom. I'm really hands-on. Everything else became secondary.

Being a father of three children and grandfather to nine, I do think that this thing called 'parenting' is becoming increasingly difficult.

I'm the father of three daughters, and they're all highly trained professionals. Two of them are mothers, and the other one wants to be at some point.

How can you be a recluse in a house full of children, even if you had the inclination to be, which I don't?

By the time the children go to bed, I am as drained as any mother who has spent her day working, car pooling, building Lego castles and shopping for the precisely correct soccer cleat.

When you have little kids, you lose friends because you're so busy, but as they get older, you realise how important it is to have your girlfriends around.

Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.

I'd just as soon stay home and raise babies.

I've got nine kids, nine dogs, three grandkids - and one in the oven. And three parrots!

For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home.

I've had a family my entire adult life; I started raising kids when I was 21. I suspect that being part of a family has probably informed my life as a writer as much as anything else has.

Eighty percent of my life is normal like any other mother. I worry about my children, if they're doing all right. I worry that my husband is doing well.

I took a bit of a back seat, I had kids and I wanted to focus on them. There's that period in the late '90s, the early 2000s, where I didn't do a great deal.

One thing I've been happy as peach pie about - because I'm all about the children and the happiness of a woman because that makes the happiness of the home - is that nannies, day cares and babysitters are all collapsing, which is forcing moms and dads to raise their children at home.

There are lots of different ways for women to be a mom in this culture.

I am endlessly busy, bringing up five young kids, and trying to keep up with the three older ones. I still spend most of my life driving car pools.

My mother came from a generation that did not want nannies. She had her first child at 24 and her last - me - at 42.

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.

As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then hey, I've done my job.

I made a choice to stay home and raise five boys. Believe me, it was hard work.

I don't remember my life before I had children.

I'm not made to be a mother.