Marianne Elliott Quotes

Career is important, but nothing really supersedes my roles as a mother.

I'm not sure if I want to continue to work when I have kids.

I want my girls to grow up learning that it is important their mum worked like a man.

I've been travelling, returning home for promotional appearances, and juggling it all with being the mother of a five-year-old.

The working mothers of America deserve medals.

A career is a career, but you're a mother until you die.

There are plenty of models who have children.

Work all paled into the background as soon as I had a baby.

Believe me, I recognize the cultural and anatomical challenges and respect the sacrifices women make in order to balance family and a career, or family with no career, or career with no family.

I had the experience last year of directing my first feature while I had a 1-year-old son and while I was also pregnant, so I am now well aware of the difficulties women who are rearing children face when they're also trying to make headway in mainstream of film.

The fact that a woman is attached to her professional life should not prevent her from being a mother.

I love being a dad. I'd do it full-time if I didn't have to make a living.

I definitely don't want to have kids. I don't think I'd be a great mother. I don't want to have a kid and have it raised by a nanny. I don't have the time to raise a child.

I've been so fortunate to work with so many successful women who are moms as well.

I am not the first woman to multi-task. I am not the first woman to work and have a baby - there are many women who have done this before.

I have the greatest respect for working mothers.

I would say the biggest challenge I had as a woman in science is be a mom. It's really hard. It's very hard work having children, and I tell kids this all the time.

I'm like any working mom.

I hope, what I hope the most is to be more successful as a mother than in show business, because to be a mother is the most difficult I will ever have to do.

Since I've had a son, I want to be around to see him grow up.

I'm a working mom. I've been working since I was 14 years old.

I'm obsessed with being a mom.

I'm almost a full-time mom.

I just ultimately wanted to be a mother. I love children.

At 24, I took time off to have a baby, and ever since, I have been juggling modelling with motherhood.