Davinia Taylor Quotes

New motherhood is such a vulnerable and powerful time, but it's also really hard.

I think I'm going to spend some time learning how to be a first-time mom, and then I'll go back to work.

When you're pregnant, you go out and buy every single book; you have this stack of books on your nightstand, but there was nothing that was preparing me for anything even remotely resembling what my life was going to look like.

Personally, becoming a mother has been such a rewarding and wonderful experience. However, at times it has also been a huge challenge. Even for me who has support at home that most mothers do not.

When I had a baby, I was consumed with my body.

Being a full-time mother is one of the biggest jobs in the world; it's like another career for me. I love every moment of it - even the challenge of making cupcakes.

Being a mum can be utterly overwhelming.

I know being pregnant and giving birth is the most wonderful thing on Earth. I know that after you have a baby, there is a sense of addiction, a need to have another. It's biological.

I'm like any working mom.

Well, I think anybody who's had a baby can tell you that once you have a baby, they kind of become the main focus. I don't think there's gonna be a lot of room for anything else.

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

Motherhood is wonderful, but it's also hard work. It's the logistics more than anything. You discover you have reserves of energy you didn't know you had.

When you're not a mom, you can get up in the middle of the night, paint, sleep all morning... you can't do that when you have two children!

I like showing moms what it's really like having a baby, and how it's not Hollywood life.

Working moms, stay at home moms, they're both extremely hard jobs.

I had three children while doing a show, as demanding as 'Good Morning America,' so this is - you know, it's almost like I'm less daunted about motherhood, and parenting at this point in time. And I think I'm just much more fit and healthy than I was 20-years-ago.

I think it's a tough road if you're a stay-at-home mom, a working mom, if you have a partner, if you don't. It's the best job in the world, and the toughest job in the world all at the same time.

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.

Being a mother is quite tiring. There's not much time to do anything. You just rush around and it's hard work.

I think women often have problems with self-belief, which sounds a bit boring, but they do - and I think when women are bringing up children, it can be chronic, because you have all these other calls on your time.

I never get to go to movies, because I'm a mom.

Being a mother is more exhausting than working, and sometimes I push myself too hard and burn myself out. I can appreciate how exhausting it must be for women who have to do everything themselves all the time.

I am a mother, so I'm used to balancing things.

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

I think when you're a mom and an actor, it forces you to leave any actor neuroses behind and just concentrate on the work.