Sonia Rykiel Quotes

I always say, one way to connect with a working mother is to ask her what she has done before work that day!

Training for the Olympics was much easier than balancing my life now! When practice was over, there was time for me. But with four kids and a career, I have no downtime. When I'm not on the road, I finish my workday at 2:30 p.m. Then I pick the kids up from school and they get 100 percent Mommy, not part Mommy and part Mary Lou Retton.

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

While raising my children, I would like to take on other challenges.

Nothing comes before my children. I find that putting everything else in order of importance also helps to get everything done.

One has to divide attention between having kids and a full workload.

When you have a kid at home, it takes up all your time.

I don't go to conferences quite as much as I used to: having a child and movin away from the university leaves me with less time, but I've tried to balance things out - not just spending time with Linux all the time, but having a real job and a real life at the same time.

I'm like any working mom.

Working mothers' laughter comes hardest when our double life is revealed for what it is: a juggling act in which the balls can drop at any time, invariably on our own head.

I love acting, but I have two little kids, and it's 14 hours a day out of the house. You don't get that time back.

Juggling being a mom and an entertainer is a challenge I face every day.

I am a mother, so I'm used to balancing things.

So, I kind of rather was hoping that people thought it would have a nice mixture of different topics and it also takes in the fact that I've had two children recently.

I've been a single parent for a long time. It reminds me of being a waitress. As you walk back to the kitchen, requests come at you from all sides. You're doing the job of two - you have to be highly organised.

I have three kids and a wife, and any moments that aren't dedicated to working on this film in some way, or family, are immediately reserved for sleep.

Mothers are the heart of any household. I try to spend as much time with my children as I possibly can while also fulfilling my professional duties. It is tricky, but I think I manage it.

If it hadn't been for the rise of the working woman's wardrobe, I never would have found the time to sneak a kid in.

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

I'm an active and involved senator. It's very difficult to do the job I want to do and spend as much time as I want with my kids... It is time for me to be a father first to them, and I realize as I watch them grow and become young adults that I won't be able to get this time back.

I feel like I'm one of the many working mothers. And I only have one child. I know working mums who have three or four. It's definitely a challenge but it's a wonderful challenge to be able to do both.

I want to work, but the balance to find between working and being a mom is challenging.

I'm a single parent, a working mother, an executive, and an author. My greatest accomplishment will be to raise three wonderful children.

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 is draining when you have a child, and there aren't many women directors with kids out there as role models.