Quotes About Priorities

I chose to be a working wife and mother. Why should I compromise on either?

You may lose your wife, you may lose your dog, your mother may hate you. None of those things matter. What matters is that you achieve success and become free. Then you can do whatever you like.

My mother said, Don't worry abot what people think now. Think about whether your children and grandchildren will think you've done well.

I was not a classic mother. But my kids were never palmed off to boarding school. So, I didn't bake cookies. You can buy cookies, but you can't buy love.

For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home.

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.

What I hope the most is to be more successful as a mother than in show business, because to be a mother is the most difficult I will ever have to do.

That industry expects you to prove yourself over and over again. Do I stay doing this, or do I raise my daughter and live surrounded by people who love me? Wasn't even really a choice.

I don't want to feel like a failure to my daughter. She's the best thing I've ever done. Buffy - pretty great and all, but Charlotte's way better.

Fame is rot; daughters are the thing.

Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.

I was a perfect housewife. Being a mother has always been the job I liked best. Absolutely.

I would much rather be known as the mother of a great son than the author of a great book or the painter of a great masterpiece.

I know I'm talented, but I wasn't put here to sing. I was put here to be a wife and a mom and look after my family.

A mother who is obsessing about being thin and dieting and exercising is not going to be a very good mother.

A car is like a mother-in-law - if you let it, it will rule your life.

My priorities had been changing before I had Addie but after she was born they changed completely. I don't count - my daughter sort of owns me.

I don't remember my mother ever playing with me. And she was a perfectly good mother. But she had to do the laundry and clean the house and do the grocery shopping.

I question whether we can afford to teach mother macramé when Johnny still can't read.

I am happier when I love than when I am loved. I adore my husband, my son, my grandchildren, my mother, my dog, and frankly, I don't know if they even like me. But who cares? Loving them is my joy.

I'm happy going home early and working out and just being a mother and being a wife.

My daughter is wonderful and incredibly well behaved. I am very lucky. She will always be my priority.

Career is important, but nothing really supersedes my roles as a mother.

I hate being away even for a day. But I'm happiest when I'm working and have my own things going on, so it ultimately makes me a better mother and wife.