Yelena Baturina Quotes

When you get married and have children, and you start having hits and success and your business starts growing, there's less and less time for songwriting.

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

I haven't really given much thought to the whole 'working mother' thing.

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

I was very strongly influenced by women's magazines and I really believed tha a woman could not be married and raise a family and have a successful career all at the same time.

You can't separate the two, being a parent, being a cop.

I think we all live dichotomies. I'm a father of three boys and a loyal homebody sort of husband and father. And yet I act in movies and write and direct movies.

I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.

I find it very difficult to be two different characters at the same time - actress and mother.

One has to divide attention between having kids and a full workload.

I love being a mother; I hate being a housewife - the cooking, the laundry - because it takes away time I could be with my kids.

There isn't a spare minute in the day. I have spent my life doing everything. I work. I go home. I do the shopping. I cook. Then there's the laundry and the dog. Most of my life, I have been a working mother. And even when I wasn't, I still did it all.

There are no tricks to balancing work and family. It is a struggle all the time, and you just do your best. I think men are much better at compartmentalising.

The phrase 'working mum' makes me nervous.

I have been a working mom as long as I've been a mom.

I have 3 kids and a cat and a busy, noisy house. I get more time to relax when I'm working.

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

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

In interviews I gave early on in my career, I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a dynamic job, marriage, and children. In some respects, I was a social adolescent.

As a partner in a firm full of women who work outside of the home as well as stay at home mothers, all with plenty of children, gender equality is not a talking point for me. It is an issue I live every day.

Before we got married, I had tremendous ambition. Once we got married and I started having children, then I just thought that that was my real life. Steve was definitely more ambitious than I.

I'm the father of three daughters, and they're all highly trained professionals. Two of them are mothers, and the other one wants to be at some point.

Once you're in charge of your job, your house, your children, getting the food on the table, doing all of this, all of the time, it'd be nice for someone else to be in charge for a bit maybe.

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.

My entire adult life has been devoted to family and career, each adding to the other in many rewarding ways. I have never felt that I had to set a pattern for my writing and teaching.