Managing Multiple Roles Quotes

Juggling a career and a family is a challenge for anyone, and even more so (in general) for women. Probably the most important advice to any woman interested in a career is to pick your life partner with care. Having a supportive partner is key to trying to manage the constraints of these two demanding roles.

Training for the Olympics was much easier than balancing my life now! When practice was over, there was time for me. But with four kids and a career, I have no downtime. When I'm not on the road, I finish my workday at 2:30 p.m. Then I pick the kids up from school and they get 100 percent Mommy, not part Mommy and part Mary Lou Retton.

It is a very important matter, as a woman, to juggle everything... Your professional life, family, children etc.

It's difficult to be a mother and maintain a career as a performer - but then it's difficult in any industry.

If you're going to wear three hats, you'd better grow two more heads.

It's not at all hard to reconcile the two things if you organize your time intelligently. Even when my sons were little, I was working.

I have abandoned so many projects but in the '80s when I left public life to be married and have real children - I love my children and I would never sacrifice them for anything - I had to find a way to simultaneously be a mother and wife and fulfill my duties and still be true to myself as a writer.