Goapele Quotes

The fact that a woman is attached to her professional life should not prevent her from being a mother.

To suggest that you can't be both a mother who is completely in love with her babies, and a professional who is tough and tenacious, is ridiculous.

I've been so fortunate to work with so many successful women who are moms as well.

I work hard and try to combine a demanding career with motherhood.

Women are running companies, serving as the human resource director of companies, and helping employees solve problems. Women are doctors, lawyers, teachers, sales managers, marketers. They handle problems in the workplace by day and manage their families by night.

I haven't really given much thought to the whole 'working mother' thing.

I'm trying to have a family and a career.

The women that inspire me are the ones who have careers and children; why would I want to limit myself? I've always wanted to have children, and I would never give up that experience for a career. I want to have it all.

I think the main thing that I've learned while working on 'Let's Stay Together' is how to balance mommyhood and working.

My biggest project right now is trying to be a really great mom and learning how to balance family and career. I'm just trying to spend as much time with my family as I can.

When I started Donna Karan, people weren't really accepting the idea of the working woman.

I think it's very empowering to be able to have a career and to be a mother. It gives you an amazing sense of self.

I like being a mother, and I want to be involved in my work, so I have to make choices. If you're a film actress, your career is from 20 to 45, but you can still dream.

I've been really fortunate that I've worked with a lot of strong women who are also mothers.

It's really hard juggling, trying to carve out a time to have a family and be a mom and have a career, especially a creative career.

I am not the first woman to multi-task. I am not the first woman to work and have a baby - there are many women who have done this before.

I want my girls to grow up learning that it is important their mum worked like a man.

It's depressing that ambition and feminism have become almost dirty words for working women. But, there is no reason that they should be and, increasingly, I am struck by how the next generation is challenging conceptions of what it means to be successful at work.

I have the greatest respect for working mothers.

I stand here as the mother of three children, who knows firsthand how difficult it can be to combine family and a career.

So many women now in China are entering the workforce and also taking up very important positions CEOs, for example. The problem for many such women now is how to balance all the different kind of responsibilities that they take on and that they want to take up. They have to balance family and work and maybe kids. Chinese woman really have a strong desire to do that. They want to grab a hold of all these things. They are willing and able. But there is the challenge of how to keep the balance.

I am a mom as well as a senator!

I was very strongly influenced by women's magazines and I really believed tha a woman could not be married and raise a family and have a successful career all at the same time.

When you have to do as much as women do, the Internet allows you to - from home - figure out a way to extend your reach and power in the world. It allows you to do what job you've done traditionally, and create aspirations by carrying on a job and using the Internet to amplify everything you're doing.

I am in awe of women who have full family lives and seem to work round the clock in the 24/7 news cycle.