Ellen Pompeo Quotes

Very few women manage to have it all; certainly not all at once.

I want to be playing music, and I want to be a great mom, and I want to do everything.

Women can achieve power and purpose in whatever profession they pursue, position they hold or whether they are caring for their children full time.

The transparency men have enjoyed for generations, about their ability to frankly work while also reveling in fatherhood, is still complicated for women. Which is not to say that anyone can have everything.

You're always going to feel like you're catching up, and part of that is just balancing work and motherhood and the whole feeling of needing to please, which I do think girls and women feel more than men.

Even after marriage it is possible for a woman to have a career.

Anything is possible for anyone in America.

Feminism is being able to have the choice - the choice to be a CEO, to be an executive, to be a journalist, to be a congresswoman, to be a mother, a stay-at-home mother, to be a wife.

As a woman and as a mother, as a young mother, I felt guilty about being successful.

Just because you have a baby on your hip - or one on the way or two at home - doesn't mean you can't go after your dreams.

Naturally you want to be the best mom you can, but then also you want to be the best performer you can.

My dream is to have a family, hopefully while still working.

The time is long overdue to encourage more women to dream the possible dream.

This country was founded and built by people with great dreams and the courage to take great risks.

But I am a girl with a keen interest in having it all, and what follows are hopeful dispatches from the frontlines of that struggle.

Meanwhile, I get to make an album. I feel like I've been very lucky. There is a guilt when I see people I know who work really hard, then I'm like, "Oh, I've got to do an interview today." I'm so appreciative of all of this, but it does feel like the bubble will burst at some point and it will all have been a dream.

No wonder women have achieved a more equal footing with men in areas they never fought for -- ulcers, hypertension, and heart attacks. We're racing around trying to be all things to all people, burdened by a brutal mix of ambition, anxiety, and guilt.

Women had always been thought of as looking after the family when men go and earn an income and they're the bread earner and so on. So there is a kind of generation of inequality, [and], on top of the fact, women have pregnancies and periods, [and] when the children are very small, there are greater demands on their time. So one way or another women have had a pretty rough deal in the past, and there's no reason why that should continue, and any country that has tried to remedy that has succeeded in doing so.

Because this is a country where everyone deserves the same freedom and opportunities to fulfill their dreams.

My dreams are my dress rehearsals for my future.

If a man can dream, if a man can have goals, he can be happy and he can be alive. If he has no goals he doesn't even have a future.

What I remember thinking at that point, having gone through both the ups and downs of my first four years, and seeing the sea of people was, "What a remarkable country this is and how lucky am I that we live in a place where the son of a single mom, not born into any kind of fame or fortune, in a pretty remote state somehow can end up be in a position to - to make a difference."

I am not from the political or banking elite. I am a child of the middle class far from Paris. And if someone had told me that success is bad or if they had placed hurdles in my path, I wouldn't be where I am today. I want it to be possible for young people in our country to be successful - whether they want to find that success in the family, as an artist or by founding a company.

Be yourself... And shoot for the stars. Obviously dreams really do come true.

Taking no chances means wasting your dreams.