Evonne Goolagong Cawley Quotes

I managed to slip two children out in the middle of my career and have been lucky with all the work.

I work hard and try to combine a demanding career with motherhood.

I'm trying to have a family and a career.

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

The women that inspire me are the ones who have careers and children; why would I want to limit myself? I've always wanted to have children, and I would never give up that experience for a career. I want to have it all.

I think it's entirely possible to have a career in fashion and raise a child. Stella McCartney is on her fourth child and remains both a fashion icon and a great mom.

Motherhood definitely took the focus off of my work. And I didn't mind. I had a few panics when I thought that if I wanted to work I couldn't get a job anymore and then I would get one once in a while and it would make me feel better.

I wanted a family, but before I had a family, I was a career person. I've tried to marry those two things, and sometimes it is successful, and sometimes it is not.

I'm an actress and I want to act, and I'm a mom and I want to be with my kids, and it's trying to find a way to do both.

I think you can have your career and still bring to your family something very, very special. There are some people who are born mothers, who don't want to work and just want to stay at home, and that's fantastic, but for me it was something very difficult.

I think that I'd like to try to be a superwoman and have kids and work, so we'll see if I can actually accomplish that.

People always ask is it hard being an entrepreneur and a mum, and the answer is 'yes.'

I said to myself, 'I've waited a long time in my life to have a child, and I'm missing it, I want to continue to have a career, but not this way.'

I always wanted to have a really successful career, but I always wanted to be a mom, too.

It's really hard juggling, trying to carve out a time to have a family and be a mom and have a career, especially a creative career.

It's about maintaining balance. Plan better, be organised. I chose to be a working wife and mother. Why should I compromise on either?

A family is definitely in my future, but I have no idea when. I don't know how people fit it in with an acting career, but they do. Katherine Parkinson is a great example of that, so I'll have to ask her.

Just because you have a baby on your hip - or one on the way or two at home - doesn't mean you can't go after your dreams.

I would love to continue to model but also have a family.

Before I had my first child, I thought women had to decide between being a mom and a fulfilling, successful professional life. I was wrong. Very wrong.

I definitely love to work, and I'm loving being a mommy, so I'd like to try to balance both.

I stand here as the mother of three children, who knows firsthand how difficult it can be to combine family and a career.

My first job now is as a mother, everything else is secondary. My kids understand that I am an actress, and they are always so surprised to hear my voice on a cartoon character, or see my face on a video box. If it ever gets to be too much though, the career and the kids, I will simply set the career aside.

I think the main thing that I've learned while working on 'Let's Stay Together' is how to balance mommyhood and working.

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