Billie Burke Quotes

Women need to understand that it is possible to stay in the workforce. A lot of women decide to take a back seat in their professional careers even before they are pregnant or are ready to have children.

I feel career women should avoid getting married.

Any woman in any career has to think about when they have children, if they want to have children, and how it's going to affect their career.

Even after marriage it is possible for a woman to have a career.

I don't feel that my marriage has anything to do with my career. It never hampers anyone's career in the film industry.

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

I'm one of the lucky few who never had to face the whole 'Oh, you've had a baby, and now work will have to suffer' bit. It just wasn't a big deal when I got married and had a baby.

There are really good reasons to leave the workforce or work less or take a different job when you want to be with your children. I just want women - and men - to make that choice once they have the child. Not years in advance, because... they don't get the right opportunities. They give up before they even start.

The biggest message I have for young women is, Don't start cutting off branches of your career tree unnecessarily early. Sometimes women say, I know I want to have a family or play in the local symphony, and they start pulling themselves out of their career path. You don't have to take yourself out of the running before you even start.

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

I really thought when I was pregnant with my first that it wouldn't affect my work at all; it would just be a baby that grows up on set. And I was absolutely wrong. For women, the high point of their career and needing to have babies just don't really go together.

I support my wife. I want her to have a career. I want her to be happy, to have success at what she does.

I hope for little girls and boys that there is a future where they can make choices about how they raise their family and what sort of career they have, which is based on what they want and what makes them happy.

I know my wife works just as hard as me if not harder to have a career.

Being married has not affected my career at all other than just making me happier to be on the road.

It is a woman's decision about when they choose to have children, and it should not predetermine whether or not they are given a job or have job opportunities.

You don't want an 18-year-old girl who's very talented thinking: 'I want to play for the first team but I've got to give up my education to do so.' That has happened a lot in the past.

... a supportive husband is an absolute requirement for professional women.... He is something she looks for, and when she finds him, she marries him.

Getting married has certainly made a massive difference to my own life. So I am committed to giving support for family finances and having the right policies for work-life balance that make it easier for couples to have a rich family life.

I'm not saying that if you're working at home, raising a family, that's not work. I want to disrupt the narrative around what it means to be a woman who works. The whole point of my brand is that women should be architecting the lives they want to live.

I feel things are changing now. Actresses are working at same pace even after getting married or having kids.

I like to stay in the rhythm of things. My maternity leave will be a few weeks long, and I'll work throughout it.

Our goal as Republicans is to ensure gender discrimination ends once and for all, and to also help guarantee those who want to remain in the workforce and continue their careers aren't hindered by clunky, outdated regulatory structures that penalize them for making that choice.

The reality is that family is on the cards in the future. But you know in motorsport if you take yourself off to have children, you won't come back, partly as you're quickly forgotten in this sport.

During childbearing years, changing jobs - even for a fundamentally better gig - can be a very bad idea. Those prime childbearing years - mid-twenties to early forties - overlap precisely with prime professional years. This is when employees are most attractive to new employers, when they should be able to zip up ladders with the most alacrity.