Country Quote by Alissa Quart

We're contemptuous of 'distracted' working mothers. We're contemptuous of 'selfish' rich mothers. We're contemptuous of mothers who have no choice but to work, but…

— Kim Brooks

It's only too easy to idealise a mother's job. We know well that every job has its frustrations and its boring routines and its…

— Donald Woods Winnicott

There is such a stigma on both sides of being a working mother, and you can fall into the trap of what you think…

— Samantha Ponder

Mothers suffer in the workplace. That fact is by now so painfully familiar it even has a name: the motherhood penalty.

— Alissa Quart

Motherhood gives you access to a range of different intellectual experiences and ways of seeing the world, which, in a way, makes you more…

— Alissa Quart

Motherhood is a great honor and privilege, yet it is also synonymous with servanthood. Every day women are called upon to selflessly meet the…

— Charles Stanley

I have the greatest respect for working mothers.

— Samantha Akkineni

Working mothers are just as likely to want to conform to a standard of perfection and just as likely to suffer from their failure…

— Melinda M Marshall

But the majority of mothers work - and are responsible for taking care of the kids and home. And more fathers are spending more…

— Brigid Schulte

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

— Claire Foy

There's a repression against mothers where we're expected to be full-time workers and pretend we're not mothers, and then expected to be full-time mothers…

— Catherine Reitman

The reason child care is such a loaded issue is that when we talk about it, we are always tacitly talking about motherhood. And…

— Anonymous