Quotes About Motherhood And Career

#1. Are we always to be wanting
what isn't:
the greenest grass
accord and principle
motherhood and career?
Yet our age lies to us
like an asp,
whispering. Both.

Barbara Crooker

#2. (Georgie) Two hundred years later and it's exactly the same thing. You want to spend every single moment with your children and still have a fulfilling life at work.

Nancy Woodruff

#3. In the dissolution of sentimental partnerships it is seldom that both associates are able to withdraw their funds at the same time ...

Edith Wharton

#4. I wonder who in their right mind thought I was mature enough for this: motherhood, home ownership, a career, adulthood in general. I hope I have them all fooled, that I have any clue at all what I'm doing.

Cassandra Dunn

#5. Passion has always been important to me. That won't change. What changes in a woman's perspective. I mean, I have two kids now. I'm a single parent balancing motherhood and my career. That changes the equation.

Jody Watley

#6. Motherhood was my career. I'm totally satisfied with that.

Ann Romney

#7. I had a career and I came to motherhood late and am not married and have never had such a trusting relationship with a man - and trust is where the real power of love comes from.

Diane Keaton

#8. Women have made enormous progress on the lower and middle rungs of the career ladder, but we are failing to make the leap into senior positions. Everyone jumps to the conclusion that it's motherhood that holds women back, but often the big roadblock is the lack of executive presence.

Sylvia Ann Hewlett

#9. 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.

Kerri Walsh

#10. There is a common language, a mode of consciousness, almost a secret sign which can be read and recognized by all who are similarly engaged. Such realizations help fend off the feeling of isolation which can dog the steps of those who seek the Grail.

John Matthews

#11. While we may never achieve closure in our view of the world, it seems extraordinarily likely that our descendants will look upon many of our beliefs as both impossibly quaint and suicidally stupid.

Sam Harris

#12. I have insecurities about being a good mom, or balancing my career with motherhood. All of those are very strong, very real obstacles. My motto is just unconsciously, and maybe now consciously because I'm saying it, is sink or swim. I'm a fighter.

Charisma Carpenter

#13. The problem, thus, is not whether or not women are to combine marriage and motherhood with work or career but how they are to do so
concomitantly in a two-role continuous pattern or sequentially in a pattern involving job or career discontinuities.

Jessie Bernard

#14. The troops of other states have their reputation to gain, the sons of the Alamo have theirs to maintain.

Jefferson Davis

#15. Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous.

Thomas Browne

#16. A fierce literary woman with a penchant for married men, Margaret Fuller was ultimately torn between motherhood and her final career as a political reporter.

Susan Cheever

#17. My vantage point on the world is the operating room where I see my patients.

Atul Gawande

#18. Letting go is the one last option I have and I am too stubborn to take it

Samantha Jones

#19. In the 1950s at least less was expected of women. Now we're supposed to build a career, build a home, be the supermum that every child deserves, the perfect wife, meet the demands of elderly parents, and still stay sane.

Sara Sheridan

#20. I believe in possibility, but I'm not sure I believe in demons.

Jennifer Carpenter

#21. The key to long term success in the marketplace is to build relationships & acquire leadership skills that can build great teams.

JR

#22. Giving the utmost of herself to three absorbing interests [marriage, motherhood, career] ... was a problem for a superwoman, and a job for a superwoman, and only some such fabled being could have accomplished it with success.

Storm Jameson

#23. The first thing [in career and motherhood] is a great husband. That I found many years ago and I am lucky in that way.

Meryl Streep

#24. Even with men doing more parenting than before, the majority of women are still left facing the well-rehearsed motherhood-versus-career dichotomy. But it's not a dichotomy; its a socially organized choice masquerading as a natural one.

Meghan Daum

#25. Until my Yoga practice became the great facilitator of all things in my life, the integration of career, purpose and motherhood felt like an unattainable dream.

Brenda Strong

#26. I voted for every woman who has to leave a baby too soon, who has to downgrade her career, or who is made to feel invisible in her role as a mother.

Erin Passons

#27. Steven Barnes is uniquely powerful in helping others balance their physica and emotional arenas along a path of unifying purpose.

Gerald M. Levin

#28. Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#29. All of us knew he was a snake when we voted for him

Patricia Ireland

#30. Be sure you want the answer before you ask the question.

Carolyn McBride