Jenny Shipley Quotes

For me, having it all doesn't mean having the corner office at work and a penthouse at home if there aren't kids running around as I'm trying to cook my husband something special.

I love my children, but I don't really want to talk about them. I'm not that much of a freakish middle-aged mother, I'm just very lucky, and there isn't much more to say. I'd like not to be constantly expected to be a spokesman for things that are part of the natural rhythm of a woman's life.

I'm looking forward to being a mom and a wife and a business owner.

I'm looking forward to just being a mom and being normal.

Life is only lived full-time by women with children.

I am a mom as well as a senator!

After the war, when my husband came home, we had two more children, and domesticity for a while prevailed combined with beginning the work I had always wanted to do, which was writing a book.

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.

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.

I don't mind being a grandfather; I've been a mother for so many years. You just can't believe what it's like being a father. Especially when you come out of the chaos of the road to getting married and having children.

Motherhood was my career. I'm totally satisfied with that.

Ultimately, my greatest achievement is maintaining my career while sustaining a happy marriage and kids.

I think women who lead full lives are better mothers.

I wanted to get out of the pictures and stay home so that I could have children.

I have a personal dream to be a mom, to have a family and all that but - when I do take that break to fulfill it - I want everything else to be so strong and set that people don't forget me.

Having kids has been a fantastic thing for me. It's meant that I'm a little more balanced. In my twenties I worked massively, hardly took vacation at all. Now, I, with the help of my wife, I'm always making sure I've got a good balance of how I spend my time.

I would like to have a family someday, and I can't wait to be a stay-at-home mom.

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

I'm so happy and thankful I made it a point be a stay-at-home mom.

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

Who I really am is the mother of six kids and Woody's wife.

With my daughter, who at the time was one, my domestic life needed to take more precedent and really with my own self I needed to develop quite a bit more. So that put Blur down the list of priorities quite a lot by the time I came to thinking about it.

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.

Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.

Why do I find the fantasy - husband, family, kids - exhausting instead of alluring? Is there something wrong with me? Do I have a life?