Allison Pearson Quotes

There are days when I struggle with wanting to be a full-time, stay-at-home mom, and feeling guilty about that because I work.

A baby comes with such responsibility. Once you become a mother, you always have a guilt trip. You always try to do the best, but you feel you can always be better.

I always thought I should have been a better mother.

I still feel as if I weren't a good enough mother. I didn't break any rules.

I think every mother feels that the best place for their child is with their mum, but you want things for yourself, too. So, you're either at work feeling guilty, or you are at home feeling frustrated.

I have no regrets. I wanted to raise the kids and be a present father. When I developed a movie, I was gone for a year. That didn't really work for me. That isn't fair to make these life-forms and then disappear.

I had a lot of guilt as a single mother trying to raise a child. I had to go to work and Jeffrey was screaming that he didn't want me to. You have to give yourself permission to let go of the guilt.

Every single second of every single day... I don't know if I feel like a bad mom, but at the end of the day I'm always plagued with, 'Did I do enough? Should I go in a different direction?'

Motherhood is like a big sleeping bag of guilt.

My mother worked when I was growing up, so I was under the impression I'd find it easy to be a working mum. But I found it very hard to be away from my family, even for short periods of time.

I had children very young. You go through a period of immense guilt about being a working mother.

When I'm at work, I want to be with my daughter, and when I'm with my daughter, I probably should be working, and it just is what it is.

After Mason was born, I'd feel guilty doing anything that wasn't related to work.

I feel such a sense of empowerment being a mom. But I do wonder: How do they/we do it all?

I've taken blame about being a bad father - if being a bad father is working your butt off trying to create a career at one time.

My sons are precious to me and I have tried incredibly hard to strike the right balance between work and home life while being acutely aware that I haven't always got it right.

It takes as much discipline to be a mother and a wife as it does to do anything else.

I work too much to be an appropriate parent. I feel like a bad mom to my dog some days because I'm just not here enough. I just feel like I would do a bad job if I took the time to literally give birth to a kid right now and try and juggle everything I'm doing.

Motherhood has been an exercise in guilt.

Having a child keeps you very grounded. So when I decided to have a child, I made it clear to the people I work with that my job was no longer my priority.

A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

I have no regrets about not having children. I still wait for the pang of guilt, but I have none. I tune into the television show 'Nanny 911' occasionally which reminds me how much patience and love it take to be a good parent.

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

A mother's got to be there to raise the children. That's all there is to it. I feel badly for those mothers who work hard, and can't do it all the time.

I often feel very guilty because of the time that I spend outside of my home and the little time that sometimes I have for my kids.