Carrie-Anne Moss Quotes

Single parenting is sometimes just a case of sitting around by yourself in mild despair, not knowing what to do.

I think as mothers we are all just trying our best.

Taking care of yourself is being there for your kids, like how on a plane, they tell you to put on your oxygen mask first.

I think it's important to keep your own identity when you've got a baby.

It's very healing to me to be a very present mother. I hope that it's also good for her. But it's definitely good for me.

I did go through a bit of a dark time during the years I was trying to be a mom. But I'm basically a very positive person.

I can't get to the point where my brain is mush and I can barely talk, because my son's life depends on my health.

I stay standoffish in a sense, in my own personal space, to be able to cope with whatever it is you've got to cope with.

I've locked myself in my room and wanted to be on my own a lot in my career, but I don't do that anymore.

There's an identity crisis that happens when you give birth. I don't care how confident, how secure you are, how much help you have, how many kids you have. For me, it was major.

Anyone who is dealing with any issue or any illness whatsoever, without a support network, chances are the person will not survive.

I will say no matter how many times you go through pregnancy and then phase into newborn life, it never becomes routine or normal.

There are things that I am doing apart from films to keep me normal. Otherwise, emotionally, it is very draining.

Every mom knows it's hard to take care of yourself while you're trying to take care of your children because, when you become a mother, you become so selfless.

You have to be enough of a parent - you have to be there. If I'm feeling bad, I really do just have to get on with it and try and channel it back into my work somehow, do something positive with it.

A lot of time, mothers put their kids first, their selves aside, and then there's some moms who are like, 'Look, I'm going to try and balance it all out and still have my personal life.'

I feel like I'm a really good mom.

It's really hard to do this life - to be a human being alone.

Every normal woman that is a mother will do everything for your baby to make sure he is happy. Every mother understands that the baby is only happy being with his or her mother.

I kept a lid on my feelings at school but, when I was 18, dropped out of everything and couldn't even be bothered to get out of bed.

I do find it quite difficult to complete a job and return to normality - it does take a bit of time to find my healthy place.

You lose yourself when you first become a mum. It's easy to let yourself go.

I wouldn't want to be known as Mr Depression, but I found that when I did dip a toe in the water and talk about it, the response from the public was incredible.

In the event of an oxygen shortage on airplanes, mothers of young children are always reminded to put on their own oxygen mask first, to better assist the children with theirs. The same tactic is necessary on terra firma. There's no way of sustaining our children if we don't first rescue ourselves. I don't call that selfish behavior. I call it love.

Me and my needs were driving my mother away. Me and my needs retreated to my closet, disappeared into fairy tales. I started making up a world where my needs wouldn´t exist at all.