Nannies Quotes

God bless nannies.

I don't play Hollywood maids, the hee-hee kind of people who are so in love with their madam's children they have no time for their own.

Rich women are not too put upon by their children. You don't have to do all the things for a child that those women who had to stay at home did. My Ann had a French governess who took care of her until she was twelve years old and went off to boarding school.

My mum had me brought up by nannies and governesses. I didn't have much to do with my parents until I was 21.

As children, we looked up to our maids and our nannies, who were playing in some ways the role of our mothers. They were paid to be nice to us, to look after us, teach us things and take time out of their day to be with us. As a child you think of these people as an extension of your mother.

Family holidays and weekends are really brightly colored memories, full of my mother and father, rather than our nannies and au pairs.

Mom was only 23 when she had me, and there's a version of my story where we could have lived in New York, and she could have had a very high-profile life, and I could have been raised by nannies.

Nannies are amazing human beings.

Like traditional upper class families, there are nannies and servants, and the children, you know, come in to say good-night before they go to bed. There's very little private time with the children in the early years. Actually, there's much more private time with the children in the 20s.

Nannies love working in our house because they never know who's gonna walk through the door.

Whether I was working or not, I am not a good cook or a good seamstress. I love my kids, and I provide for them, but do I think that I'm a great mom? Not by any means, other than that they're full of love. I rely heavily on nannies and my mother and my husband to fill in all over the place where I'm lacking.

Overpay good baby-sitters.