Jane Hawking Quotes

After Mason was born, I'd feel guilty doing anything that wasn't related to work.

Being a mom is hard, I think a lot of working moms feel that way.

I honestly wondered how on earth I would manage to combine work and motherhood.

I like bringing the girls on set, but if I can't do that then the next day I feel I have to be uber-mum to make up for it. Then I'm exhausted and feel like I'm running in fumes.

As a working mother, wife, daughter, and daughter-in-law, I have to make constant moral choices. Every choice I make results in someone else suffering.

Wouldn't it be funny if I were a total nightmare? If I just shot 21-hour days and went over budget? But, you know, it's something I'm really careful about, because I am a mom, and also, I'm an actor. I'm a pleaser: I don't want to take up too much of people's time.

The only thing that I stress out about is, how am I going to make sure that I balance out my time for motherhood?

I never feel like I should have any time free.

I like to be productive - it's very hard for me to go on vacation because I just feel like I'm losing time.

I feel such a sense of empowerment being a mom. But I do wonder: How do they/we do it all?

I've taken blame about being a bad father - if being a bad father is working your butt off trying to create a career at one time.

For women of my generation, it was the 'juggling act.' Jobs, marriage, children, homes, and aging parents were the balls we added, tossing them in the air as our lives filled up and praying they wouldn't come crashing down on our heads.

I don't take time off.

I don't see how a woman in documentary photography could have children. I think it's a very difficult thing to do to raise a family, and I have enormous respect for people who do it. I'd hate to do something like that and not be good at it.

Working mothers' laughter comes hardest when our double life is revealed for what it is: a juggling act in which the balls can drop at any time, invariably on our own head.

When I'm at work, I'm remembering what I forgot to do for the kids, and when I'm with the kids, I'm remembering what I forgot to do at work.

I'm doing less than I used to because I'm a family man now, and I have two kids.

Yeah, I could go rock on the back porch and do crossword puzzles - but I've got six kids, ages 9 to 16, and someone in the family should work. That's me.

I had my daughter, and with that came a deep sense of responsibility; my time for work had become precious, and it had to have more meaning.

I watched 'House of Cards' in three days - and only in three days because I had other responsibilities, like my daughter. I couldn't just sit there and watch the entire season in just one sitting.

For me, juggling mommyhood and work is a challenge, but each day I learn little tricks to make it all come together.

When I was working a lot, I felt guilty as a parent. I couldn't pick up my son every day from school, bake him cookies and that kind of thing.

I have three kids and a wife, and any moments that aren't dedicated to working on this film in some way, or family, are immediately reserved for sleep.

It's hard to balance work and family.

Nothing comes before my children. I find that putting everything else in order of importance also helps to get everything done.