Allison Pearson Quotes

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

As a working mum, it's really hard to find time in the day to just relax and take a break. I am constantly on the go.

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

As any female executive with a family knows, you're making mental lists all through the night. You're often not sure you've managed to sleep at all.

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.

I find I'm the sort of harried working mother who has difficulty scheduling in a bit of rest amid the Ptolemaically complicated interlocking gears of professional and personal life.

I'm like any working mom.

For women of my generation, it was the 'juggling act.' Jobs, marriage, children, homes, and aging parents were the balls we added, tossing them in the air as our lives filled up and praying they wouldn't come crashing down on our heads.

The balancing act of motherhood and a career, and being a wife, is something that I don't think I'll ever perfect, but I love the challenge of it.

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

When I first had a child, I really had a hard time trying to figure out how it was all going to fit together. Because I felt like, when I was with him, I wanted to be writing and I should be writing. And when I was writing, I felt like I should be with him, and wanted to be with him. So I was unhappy a lot.

I've learned that every working mom is a superwoman.

As a mom, you're so panicked and starved for time, you just need help.

I feel like I'm one of the many working mothers. And I only have one child. I know working mums who have three or four. It's definitely a challenge but it's a wonderful challenge to be able to do both.

I have been juggling so many roles. I am a mother, too. I have three sons to take care of. I don't even know how I manage to pull it off sometimes.

The only thing that I stress out about is, how am I going to make sure that I balance out my time for motherhood?

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.

A couple of female standup comics I know refer to their kids as their Little Career Killers. I was like, I really do not want to feel that way.

I always say, one way to connect with a working mother is to ask her what she has done before work that day!

Like most working moms, my life is a constant juggling act.

I have children, and they demand my full and complete attention. They get that when I'm at home, even during the night, but it is really hard, and I do wonder how a lot of women do it without bawling their eyes out every day.

It's just easy to be a mother and an actress in the same time: you just have to have a good organization, and everything is just fine.

Naturally you want to be the best mom you can, but then also you want to be the best performer you can.

I try to balance it out on the whole. Being a mum is always the priority. Next, it's taking care of yourself. Right now, I get to only work two days a week - it's a dream. I can't imagine how hard it is for mothers who work 40 hours a week.

A 'harmonized' life these days sounds like a tall order. Between housework, homework, workwork, and busywork, there are perpetually too many things to do, and not enough time to find that mythical balance. Nothing is more frustrating than feeling like you're doing doing doing but getting nothing truly done that you really want.