Balance Quote by Michelle Obama

Wrestling with work-life balance is a luxury when working to support a family is a necessity rather than a choice. I think that focus…

— Willow Bay

It's a notion that career-oriented women often neglect their families. But we should cut them some flak; these women are doing everything for the…

— Madhuri Dixit

For women, a combination of protecting family life, prioritizing young children, and dealing with rising child-care costs cause them to leave the work force…

— Mary Katharine Ham

There's a tremendous loss of talent to businesses who cannot make room for their employees to attend to family responsibilities. It really amounts to…

— Anne-Marie Slaughter

“Although pundits and politicians, usually male, often claim that motherhood is the most important and difficult work of all, women who take time out…

— Sheryl Sandberg

It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some…

— Patricia Heaton

Women now have to put so much attention into their careers, and not many families can pull off a single income.

— Jordana Spiro

“Forty percent of employed mothers lack sick days and vacation leave, and about 50 percent of employed mothers are unable to take time off…

— Sheryl Sandberg

We don't have enough support for maternal leave and the kinds of things that some of the European countries do. So we still make…

— Hillary Clinton

“Free and accessible child care has always been a fundamental demand of the women’s movement, but the legislative efforts to pass such measures have…

— Lynn Povich

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

Work-family conflicts - the trade-offs of your money or your life, your job or your child - would not be forced upon women with…

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin