Quotes About Work-life

I didn't end her career. She chose to have children, then to make the simple choice that everyone should make really. You can't be a movie star and have children and not have one of the two suffer.

The full reality has many layers, which is why it took a book to unravel. But here's the first clue: the male-female pay gap is not a gap between men and women; it's a gap between moms and dads. Or more precisely, between men and women's work-life decisions when they become moms and dads.

You should not confuse your career with your life.

For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.

The whole world seems to be working too hard.

It's not a man's working hours that are important – it's his leisure hours.

You are overwhelmed, overscheduled, and dejected because you keep trying to have it all - or at least most of it. You want a fulfilling job and personal life, and it's not working. The way out? Work more.

I think it's important to be thinking about your personal life and your family not just when you've retired but also during your career.

I do not separate my job and my personal life; therefore, I never work and never rest.

Of course, juggling a career and a baby is tough but, as it's my business, I pick and choose.

To have or not to have kids, when to have them, and whether we working women can 'have it all' has been debated, discussed, and examined since the washing machine and the TV dinner began to free up many mothers to even consider leaving the home as a viable option.

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

Most people are looking for a challenging, interesting job. I wanted a boring, undemanding job so that I could forget about it at 5, so that I would have something left over at the end of the day to do my own stuff.

After my kids go to bed, I check email. It's about having that balance.

Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

people spend less time in the office and have more time to themselves. Their need to belong to a tribe can be satisfied with hobbies or in community activities and doesn't have to be met in the office.

Men don't have as many difficulties and are more supported to combine the different aspects of their life.

The problem with Superwoman is that she has to do it all, inside the home and outside the home. If there is a man there doing half of it, that's a different world.

Every working mom I know is constantly walking some kind of a tightrope of guilt.

You don't get to be the bad mom and still succeed at your job and be tough. It's such a good job because it's so rare. It's a really rare job.

I wanted a theory that would allow one to live outside the office with the same philosophy one uses inside it.

If you use your mobile for work, then it's highly advisable to have a separate mobile for your personal life.

I go from a full working day to making sure I am home for dinner with my kids. I couldn't do that in a 10cm mini skirt but I am not going to resort to sweatpants and an old t-shirt.

I'm not shooting every day of the week, which allows me to fly home to be with my kids for the weekends. That's how I keep it moving.