Career Quote by Jurnee Smollett-Bell

For a long time I didn't believe that I couldn't become a mother. But when I finally came to terms with it, then I…

— Shabana Azmi

I've always dreamed of becoming a mother. I thought I would get married and do it all the traditional way, but life kept going…

— Kym Whitley

I have friends who say, 'You just can't understand what it's like to be a mother until you're a mother.'

— Natasha Leggero

I always wanted to have a really successful career, but I always wanted to be a mom, too.

— Gretchen Carlson

I just think that there's so much judgment in the world, whether it's coming from women in general or from men onto women -…

— Hilary Duff

“What do you want to be?” “A mother,” I said simply, because it was true. That’s what I wanted first and foremost. “And a…

— Penny Reid

It's so hard to reconcile how weird it is to be a mom, and to feel empowered to bring to life a human, while…

— Greta Lee

I had really great parents who always gave me lots of opportunity for choice, but I didn't always realize how rare that was for…

— Ally Condie

Being a mom is something that I never take for granted.

— Kyle Richards

I don't want to let my life as a woman pass me by. There's a time to work, there's a time to be young…

— Diane Kruger

I've wanted to be a mother since I was 16, but I also just knew I wanted to have a career as well.

— Anne Hathaway

“Our culture sends some amazingly contradictory messages about what an ideal mother is like. Mothers try to live up to these ideals without recognizing…

— Kathleen Kendall-Tackett Ph.D