Angela Rayner Quotes

At 24, I took time off to have a baby, and ever since, I have been juggling modelling with motherhood.

Career is important, but nothing really supersedes my roles as a mother.

I don't neglect my kids. They are my priority. They come on shoots.

The things that are important to me - being a mother, a businesswoman, an activist - are all things that were borne out of great passion.

I'm like any working mom.

I'm a working mom. I've been working since I was 14 years old.

I'm almost a full-time mom.

I've sort of made up my mind that I have to do my career and I have to be a mother. These are my two responsibilities; of course the baby comes first.

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

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 took a long period off to be a mom.

I probably spend more time with my kids than the average stay-at-home mother.

My biggest challenge every day is to be a great mother and a great businesswoman.

Becoming a mom makes politics real. Whether it's education policies, health care policies, family leave - it informs your decision-making.

As a mom, that's at the forefront of everything in my mind, so I'm always trying to balance, whether it's bringing Violet to work or, the second I am done working, getting home to her.

It is draining when you have a child, and there aren't many women directors with kids out there as role models.

The mother who stays home instead of working sacrifices her aspirations and career to ensure that her child is well taken care of.

I've been travelling, returning home for promotional appearances, and juggling it all with being the mother of a five-year-old.

You can be a good mom and still work out, get your rest, have a career - or not. My mother encouraged me to find that balance.

That's a journey I've been on for many years. I mean, being a working mother, realizing that I have to make and find my balance.

All mothers are working mothers.

I adore going to movie sets and being part of a team trying to create something. And yet, I hate to miss even one bedtime with my girls. . . My sisters both are working mothers. I understand that my being an actress as well as being at home isn't some heroic thing. That doesn't mean it isn't confusing or difficult--especially that question of how you find a balance.

I hope, what I hope the most is to be more successful as a mother than in show business, because to be a mother is the most difficult I will ever have to do.

If it wasn't because of my high heels, I would still be in Coatzacoalcos with 10 children.

I just ultimately wanted to be a mother. I love children.