Karen Finerman Quotes

I have never met a woman who works who doesn't feel guilty. I mean we all deny it like crazy but deep down there is always that voice saying you should be at home.

Working moms commonly testify that they feel guilty when they are away from their children and guilty when they are not at their jobs. Devoted fathers certainly miss their children deeply, but it does not seem to be with the same gnawing, primal anxiety that often afflicts women.

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.

A lot of mums are torn between their work and missing out on important milestones in their children's lives.

When I'm at work, I want to be with my daughter, and when I'm with my daughter, I probably should be working, and it just is what it is.

I pretty much live about 10 minutes from my office. I have two kids, and I have about 8 projects that I'm working on, so I basically just get up and go to work, and go home every night and play with my kids, so I don't really know.

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

I certainly know what it is like to go to work and leave your baby at home. It is an ache that only other mothers can understand. I always say that it feels like you've left a limb at home. And I really struggled for the first few months of work. There were times when I shut myself in my room and cried.

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

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

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

If you work at home, you're always on call in a way.

Being a mom is hard, I think a lot of working moms feel that way.

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.

If I am in Sweden, I try to get home to be with my children. I can do work after that from home.

It's hard for anybody who works a lot and has children. But I wouldn't trade it for anything.

I work three days at home, and two days in the British Library or the London Library, just to get out of the house and hide from the children.

TaskRabbit is really my first baby. So balancing the second child is something I've tackled, but I'm really passionate about what I do, and then I'm passionate about coming home and putting my baby to bed.

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

Equipped with cell phones, beepers, and handheld computers, the 'conspicuously industrious' blur the line between home and office by working anytime, anywhere.

One of the reasons I didn't really want to do TV earlier in my career was because it is so life-consuming, and I wanted to spend time with my kids and be a mother.

If a guy works, and he has children, it's good, and he doesn't feel the same guilt about not being there for the children as a woman would. With a woman, there's that pull: 'Oh, I should be home,' when she's at work, and 'Oh, I should be at work,' when she's at home.

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.

It's really hard to balance work and being a mother.