Balance Quote by Pamela Druckerman

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

“Now, here's the real beauty of this contorting contradiction. Both working mothers and stay-at-home mothers get to be failures. The ethos of intensive mothering…

— Susan J. Douglas

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

American culture at large has failed working mothers.

— Emily Matchar

The European problem is that it assumes that the minute a woman has a child, the mother identity subsumes the professional identity. Now she's…

— Anne-Marie Slaughter

With all the efforts made by modern society to nurture and educate the young, how stupid it is to permit the mothers of young…

— Jane Addams

In a country of such great wealth and power, it is heartbreaking that we continue to let down expecting mothers who deserve to feel…

— Andy Kim

I'm real ambivalent about [working mothers]. Those of use who have been in the women's movement for a long time know that we've talked…

— Erma Bombeck

Successful Mothers are not the ones that have never struggled. They are the ones that never give up, despite the struggles.

— Sharon Jaynes

It's really hard to balance work and being a mother.

— Lisa Loeb

“Double standards in domestic roles are deeply rooted in cultural attitudes and workplace practices. Working mothers are held to higher standards than working fathers…

— Barbara Kellerman

'Workin' Moms,' obviously, is about mothers who also work. But we're also expected to remain graceful when we return to work, and that's just…

— Catherine Reitman