Courtney A. Kemp Quotes

At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you've left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent.

Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children, you're thinking about working.

When I'm at work, I'm remembering what I forgot to do for the kids, and when I'm with the kids, I'm remembering what I forgot to do at work.

There are days when I struggle with wanting to be a full-time, stay-at-home mom, and feeling guilty about that because I work.

You can still love your job and feel guilty. You can still love your child and feel guilty. There's a lot of grey in that. It's about being conscious when you are spending time with your kids, being with them in the moment.

I think every mother feels that the best place for their child is with their mum, but you want things for yourself, too. So, you're either at work feeling guilty, or you are at home feeling frustrated.

I often feel very guilty because of the time that I spend outside of my home and the little time that sometimes I have for my kids.

My son was about five or six months old, and he was ill, and I was sent to New York to interview three people back to back. I got home, and I saw my baby. He had been very ill, and he was on three kinds of antibiotics. I'd been away for eight days. I looked at him and thought, 'What am I doing? I'm a terrible mother and a terrible journalist.'

As a working mother, wife, daughter, and daughter-in-law, I have to make constant moral choices. Every choice I make results in someone else suffering.

After Mason was born, I'd feel guilty doing anything that wasn't related to work.

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

I worked so much when my first son was born that I missed a lot.

I think it is important for working moms to recognize that family is the most important.

I think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt, working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids!

I've shared the fate of many working mothers; I felt guilty like them.

I work too much to be an appropriate parent. I feel like a bad mom to my dog some days because I'm just not here enough. I just feel like I would do a bad job if I took the time to literally give birth to a kid right now and try and juggle everything I'm doing.

We all wish we could be in more than one place at the same time. People with families feel guilty all the time-if we spend too much time with our family, we feel we're not working hard enough.

It definitely gets challenging at times. I travel a lot more now, and its never easy having to leave the kids, even if its for a few days.

I just try to go to work, and concentrate on coming home to my girls.

That said, my kids are at home right now with my husband and I'm missing something important at my daughter's school which makes me feel sick inside. It's a lot of balance and a lot of really hard decision making.

I think the hardest part of being a working mom is that I miss my kids a lot.

There have been a lot of times when work and parenting conflicted for me. Every day.

When you're trying to be a parent and a businessperson at the same time, that is the most stressful thing you could do.

I think, as a working mother, what is more challenging for me is that I get to balance both work and home and prioritise my kid's life.

Every working mom I know is constantly walking some kind of a tightrope of guilt.