Monica Potter Quotes

I think it is important to say that though, of course, it is wonderful to have children, it is a disservice to others not to also say how hard it is to do it alone.

I did say that I wanted to be a young mom, just because my mom was a young mom. It is better because I can be closer to my kids and stuff.

To all you mothers out there who are raising your children alone either by choice or necessity, don't let anyone tell you you're not a family.

I had my daughter when I was pretty young, 28, and I had to sacrifice not going out with my friends, and I had to figure out how to juggle both raising her and also a very demanding job.

Bringing up children on my own was quite a busy time.

I thought running for Congress paled in comparison to being a parent and being a mom - especially a single mom of three kids.

When you're in the thick of raising your kids by yourself, you tend to keep a running list of everything you think you're doing wrong. I recommend taking a lot of family pictures as evidence to the contrary.

I wanted very badly to be a mum. I'm a very maternal person. But at the point that I met Emilio I was focusing on a career. I never would have thought that I would get married at 21 and much less be a mum by 23.

My mom, she was, at a young age, caught up in the worldly ways. At that time, it was very intriguing to be out partying and having fun. As a young mother, she was caught in that.

For a decade, I was a stay-at-home mom. I sent my husband to his law office, sat on PTA boards and baked cookies - great cookies. All of a sudden, I had no husband, no job, few prospects, and two small children who had grown accustomed to eating.

I don't think anyone masters parenthood.

It has been tough being a mother of two daughters without a co-parent because I think I was a child myself, as my mother was.

The thing about parenting rules is there aren't any. That's what makes it so difficult.

The parenting bit is much harder than the acting bit. You just never know what to do.

My mother was a single working mother; she started having children very young. There was a tension inside her about who she wanted to be and what she wanted to do and how she couldn't achieve the things she wanted to.

I'm going to let people know that it's cool to have a child and be young and still be a good mom. It's really tough, but I'm doing it.

There's not a second I regret having a child on my own.

Being a mother of two myself - and two small girls - I think that single parenting is hard.

If you go from a structure where you have the support and that partner and that construction of a family and that's broken apart, I think that's probably a lot harder than always being a single mom and having the father being a support in another area.

I never went to college. I was pregnant at 23.

My mother's a Peruvian Indian from Lima who raised me and my four brothers and sisters as a single mom.

I very much wanted a family and children. I came to it late in life.

There are many things I wish I could redo as a parent.

My mother was a single mom, and she was a claims adjuster at an insurance company. She actually dropped out of school - she was going to become a registered nurse - because she had to take care of me and my brother.

In parenting, as in judging, the days are long, but the years are short.