Barbara Tuchman Quotes

Because I work with so many people on the east coast, I get some work done before I get the kids up.

If I'm going to work, hopefully I have a late call time, and can hang out with Rain and our nanny until we shoot.

The one big, humongous, immense thing that we didn't change, that we didn't figure out how to deal with is, if men and women are both going to work throughout their lives, who's going to take care of the kids?

In the mornings I drop my son off at school and then head to work. I am done at work by 2:00 P. M. and can head home.

All mothers are working mothers.

We are all trying to balance our careers and children and give as much of ourselves and our time to them. You work and have a husband, and projects, and friends. It is a balancing act.

Working moms, stay at home moms, they're both extremely hard jobs.

When my daughter was born, I was a stay-at-home dad for the first two years.

There are 80 million moms in the United States. Forty million stay at home with their children.

If a mother is sitting in a chair at the office, someone needs to be at home with her child. In some cases, that is a father. Much of the time, the material manifestation of the conflict is a nanny.

I'm a mother. Mothers multi-task.

I honestly wondered how on earth I would manage to combine work and motherhood.

A mother's got to be there to raise the children. That's all there is to it. I feel badly for those mothers who work hard, and can't do it all the time.

I'm usually done with work around 11am, so I have time before I pick the kids up from school.

I think I would make a lousy stay-at-home mom. It just wouldn't suit me.

I took a long period off to be a mom.

When you're a stay-at-home mother you have to pretend it's really boring, but it's not. It's enriching and fulfilling, and an amazing experience. And then when you're a working mother you have to pretend that you feel guilty all day long.

I have been looking after the children. My wife has taken time off.

I've got young kids, so it suits me to do a job which keeps me in town right now.

I have a six-year-old son and a four-year-old daughter, so I write when they are at school and pre-school, or when I have a babysitter.

It is true that as you have children, there are a good many months when you don't want to be working full-time. I agree that that's an issue.

I think of myself as a mum who finds the time to go to work. I have to check myself for baby sick before I walk out of the house in the morning. I am really a mum... I know I am a great mother.

We don't have nannies and all that, we look after our own kids. It's just what you do. If you want a big family that's just what you do, isn't it?

I wanted to stay on TV because I've got kids who are school-aged, so I get to see them most days as opposed to going away for movies months and months at a time.

It was never something that I thought put me in a good light, that I was a working mom.