80s Quote by Patti Smith

I've had the kind of complex life I write about. I was a single mother for 12 years. I'd been engaged. The wedding fell…

— Stephanie Coontz

I had a dozen years to act before starting a family then found that motherhood dwarfed everything else. Once or twice a year, I…

— Sissy Spacek

Many years ago I had two small children, and I wanted to be able to be home when they got home from school. And…

— Mary Kay Andrews

I had a 20-year career. I have two children. The advantage of writing later in my life is that I already had a whole…

— Amor Towles

I made a conscious decision that I was not going to have children. I didn't want others raising them, and looking after them myself…

— Stevie Nicks

Til marriage and motherhood happened, I was devoted to my work. I didn't see anything beyond it.

— Sridevi

I got a divorce, and I felt like I finally started my career. I started making movies and projects that I just really believed…

— Olivia Wilde

After seven years of writing - and working many jobs to support my family - I finally got published.

— Lloyd Alexander

When I finally accepted a full time job, I saw that as giving up on my artistic dreams. But three years later, I wrote…

— Sarah Cooper

I have two children. I gave up a lot for my career, but I'm very happy for it. I've done what I've always thought…

— Maria das Gracas Silva Foster

I never even dreamt of being a writer because I didn't feel allowed. When I was a child I was terribly ambitious, but I…

— Amelie Nothomb

I've been writing all my life. Even though I didn't have sort of careerist aspirations as a writer, it was very much my identity.

— Ayana Mathis