Santigold Quotes

I stand here as the mother of three children, who knows firsthand how difficult it can be to combine family and a career.

I think the main thing that I've learned while working on 'Let's Stay Together' is how to balance mommyhood and working.

I work hard and try to combine a demanding career with motherhood.

I love being a mum but I do love to work too.

My priorities are my family and my job. I have little time for much else.

I spend as much time with my kids as any mom who stays home. I only work during the hours they're at school, but there is always the sense of trying to catch up with all their stuff and not only organize my work life but also their school lives.

The balancing act of motherhood and a career, and being a wife, is something that I don't think I'll ever perfect, but I love the challenge of it.

I wanted a family, but before I had a family, I was a career person. I've tried to marry those two things, and sometimes it is successful, and sometimes it is not.

I honestly wondered how on earth I would manage to combine work and motherhood.

I love making movies, but I was ready to rationalize being only a mother if my career never got back on track.

Is it harder having kids and working? It definitely is, but the payoff is you get to go home to your kids, and it all balances out. And I know I'm a better mother when I'm engaged in something outside of the house.

I always wanted to have a really successful career, but I always wanted to be a mom, too.

It's about maintaining balance. Plan better, be organised. I chose to be a working wife and mother. Why should I compromise on either?

I want time for my career, my kids, and my partner.

I think it's possible to be a great mother and have a successful career. I like that more women are doing this.

I'm trying to have a family and a career.

My priorities were taking the kids to school and being a mum and being a daughter and being a sister. Just spending a lot of that time with my family that I'd probably lost a lot of, touring with the Cranberries.

Ranveer was almost three when I began my second stint. I took up TV assignments so that I could have enough time at home. While being 24/7 with my child was amazing and his company stimulating, I missed adult conversations.

I managed to slip two children out in the middle of my career and have been lucky with all the work.

My first job now is as a mother, everything else is secondary. My kids understand that I am an actress, and they are always so surprised to hear my voice on a cartoon character, or see my face on a video box. If it ever gets to be too much though, the career and the kids, I will simply set the career aside.

I'm taking one thing at a time. With the children and launching my solo career it would drive me to a nervous breakdown if I tried to organise a wedding on top of that.

I don't see how a woman in documentary photography could have children. I think it's a very difficult thing to do to raise a family, and I have enormous respect for people who do it. I'd hate to do something like that and not be good at it.

Eventually I want to be a full-time mother who works occasionally - and being an actor you have that freedom.

One of our daughters is now a physician; another is a vice president of a major entertainment company; and the third is a clinical therapist. They place no limits on their ambitions, but for them, those ambitions also have had to fit within the context of having children.

I've always said that kids should enhance your life, not hinder your life, so I just try to make the most out of being with my kids. You have to have a life for yourself somewhere in the mix of being a wife and mum.