Pat Benatar Quotes

It's hard to have little children and a job and career at the same time. There is no time left for you as a woman.

I think it's a tough road if you're a stay-at-home mom, a working mom, if you have a partner, if you don't. It's the best job in the world, and the toughest job in the world all at the same time.

Being a working mom is not easy. You have to be willing to screw up at every level.

We all wish we could be in more than one place at the same time. People with families feel guilty all the time-if we spend too much time with our family, we feel we're not working hard enough.

It's difficult to be a mother and maintain a career as a performer - but then it's difficult in any industry.

I think that any moms that leave, even for the day at work, and come home every night will tell you that it's not easy.

If you work and you want to see your children, something's got to give and for me, it's my social life.

Spending time away from family during filming, I think, for every working mum is always difficult. But it has to be done; there's no way round it you've just got to do it.

I don't have the luxury of sitting around any more. I must have had bags of spare time before I had children, but I don't know what I did with it and I didn't appreciate it. But it's such a terrific trade-off. I don't have time to get a pedicure, but I sure am happy. Who cares if your feet look bad?

As women, we often think we have to be all things to all people, all at the same time. As a wife, mother, actress and businesswoman, I definitely feel the pressure to perform well in all areas.

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.

And I don't believe that women can successfully have it all. I really don't.

I think you basically have to abandon the dreams of having any other adult activities in your life. You have to go to sleep whenever your child goes to sleep.

Work... family - I'm doing it all. But here's the secret I share with so many other nanny- and housekeeper-less mothers I see working the same balance: my house is trashed. It is strewn with socks and tutus.

Being a woman in music and having kids, it's very hard to do both without neglecting one a bit.

I was shooting the third season of 'The Big C' and doing 'The Normal Heart' at the same time on Broadway, and I thought, 'I'll never do anything as difficult as this.'

I've concentrated for a long time on English films because I've got two kids but my oldest son is 11 and I think I'm going to be away for about four months of year now.

There were so many occasions when I wasn't around for my kids or my husband. But we learnt to work around it.

I wanted to be a 150% entrepreneur and a 150% mom, and I found that I was having a very hard time doing both. I was about 75% and 75% - still better than 100%, but not what I was accustomed to at work.

You really can have your dreams and at the same time have a family. But it has to be a really deliberate practice.

I find it is increasingly difficult to spend the time I need with my family and at the same time do the job that needs to be done.

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

I think the hardest thing about making music now is being a great dad at the same time. There's an insanity that goes with writing - a mad scientist thing that you have to go through - and sacrificing a kid's upbringing to do that is not an option.

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

There's the job and then there's my family. There's very little time beyond that for friends.