“I eat excellent bread, clean meat, good crisp veggies, organic fruits and nice wine and cheese. It is one of the things I am truly grateful for. I'm not kidding. You can't ask a single mother of three working two jobs for minimum wage to eat that way. I am lucky.” WayTwoJobsMotherThreeAsksNiceLuckyGratefulWineCleanFruitBreadExcellentMeatCheeseMinimumMinimum WageCrispsSingle MotherTwo JobsWine And Cheese Author:Rachael Taylor
“My sister Jennifer is an Emmy winning journalist and mother of three amazing girls. She brings an exceptional dedication to her job, her family, and her community, and has been a role model of mine for many, many years. I'm extremely proud of her.” YearsHas BeensJobsMotherGirlThreeWinningCommunityRolesMinesProudModelsJournalistRole ModelsMy SisterDedicationExceptionalJenniferEmmys Author:Ron Livingston
“When I was growing up, my parents told me, 'Finish your dinner. People in China and India are starving.' I tell my daughters, 'Finish your homework. People in India and China are starving for your job.'” PeopleJobsMotherParentEducationGrowing UpGrowingDaughterIndiaChinaDinnerMy DaughterStarvingHomeworkChina And IndiaWorld Is Flat Author:Thomas Friedman
“My mother - both my mother and father had very successful careers. My mother's an English professor and my father is a scientist and physician. They worked at the same jobs for their entire life, 50 years each.” YearsJobsMotherFatherCareersSuccessfulScientistProfessorsPhysiciansMother And FatherSuccessful Career Author:David Plotz
“My mother only had a third grade education, was illiterate, worked as a domestic 2 to 3 jobs at a time, because she didn't want to be on welfare, because she never saw people who went on welfare come off of welfare, and she just didn't want to have her life controlled in that fashion.” PeopleWantJobsMotherSawsFashionThirdsWelfareGradesControlledIlliterateThird Grade Author:Benjamin Carson
“I was always pretty organized in high school and my mother, she always pushed me to just overachieve, both my parents. (They) let me know education is key and without it nowadays, you probably wouldn't be able to get a good job or have a decent living.” KnowsAbleSchoolJobsMotherParentKeysHigh SchoolLet MeOrganizedDecentGood Job Author:Jeremih
“A mother who is not everything for her children: a friend, a teacher, a confidant, a source of joy and founded pride, inducement and soothing, reconciliator, judge and forgiver, that mother obviously chose the wrong job.” ChildrenJobsJoyMotherTeacherJudgingSourcePrideSoothingConfidantWrong Job Author:Joseph Goebbels
“17,000 children starve on this planet every single day. That fact alone should blow any conscious person out of their chair. You know, my mother used to say that a woman’s most important job is taking care of her children and her home. I laughed at that when I was younger, but I don’t laugh at it anymore. I just realize now that every child on the planet is one of our children, and the earth itself is our home.” KnowsShouldChildrenPersonsImportantFactsHomeCareEarthJobsUsedMotherRealizingLaughingPlanetsConsciousOur ChildrenBlowChairsLaughedImportant Jobs Author:Marianne Williamson
“Anyway everyboy (sorry) knows that what women have done that is really important is not to constitute a great, cheap labor force that you can zip in when you're at war and zip out again afterwards but to Be Mothers, to form the coming generation, to give birth to them, to nurse them, to mop floors for them, to love them, cook for them, clean for them, change their diapers, pick up after them, and mainly sacrifice themselves for them. This is the most important job in the world. That's why they don't pay you for it.” KnowsWorldGivingImportantWarDoneJobsFormMotherForcePayGenerationsSacrificeBirthPicksLaborCleanSorryCooksNurseDiapersImportant JobsZipsCheap LaborLabor Force Author:Joanna Russ
“I mean, if somebody said to me, junior year of college, you can go anywhere, your old man's paying for it, I'd have been gone in a flash. But I had to work. Every summer my mother would say, 'Get that job and hold on to it until August 30.'” IfsMenYearsMeanHas BeensSaidJobsMotherLiteratureGoneCollegeSummerOld ManFlashJuniorsAugustJunior Year Author:Chris Matthews
“The greatest job that any mother will ever do will be in nurturing, teaching, lifting, encouraging and rearing her children in righteousness and truth. None other can adequately take her place.” ChildrenJobsMotherTeachingRighteousnessLiftingNurturing Author:Gordon B. Hinckley
“When you grow up with a mother who has to wash dishes and clean hotel rooms, you know the importance of having a job, and you cant be without a job for any length of time, or you will be without anything.” KnowsJobsMotherGrowsRoomsGrowing UpImportanceCleanHotelLengthDishesCantHotel Rooms Author:Edward P. Jones
“Maybe it's just a daughter's job to piss off her mother.” JobsMotherDaughter Book:Diary: A Novel Source: Diary: A Novel
“There appears to be a disturbing trend in this nation to try to force single moms to choose between their children and their careers. If they take their careers seriously, they are labeled as bad mothers. If they spend time with their children, they are labeled as people who can't be serious about careers outside the home. This is a sexist double standard. No such guilt trip is imposed on men, who are generally not forced to choose between their children and their jobs.” PeopleIfsMenTryingChildrenHomeJobsMotherForceNationsCareersSeriousMomStandardsGuiltSexismTrendsEnd TimesDisturbingSpend TimeSingle MomSexistDouble StandardBad MotherGuilt Trip Author:Gloria Allred
“Men have jobs, while women have Roles: Mother, Wife, Goddess, Temptress, etc. That's probably why it's so hard for women to rewrite the rules. You're not just changing a job description, but an ancient myth. You're revising the Bible, Poetry, Legend and Psychoanalytic Scripture.” MenHardJobsMotherRolesWifeAncientMythScriptureEtcDescriptionLegendsGoddessRevisingPsychoanalyticTemptress Author:Caryl Rivers
“You must be the greatest mother in the world, but you must also, simultaneously, withdraw from your children's lives. You don't want to be the major force in their whole lives. You need to do the job adequately and as best you can, and then provide them with independence from you. You have to give them enough so that they won't need you anymore.” WorldWantNeedsGivingChildrenEnoughWholeJobsMotherForceMajorsIndependenceWhole LifeYour ChildrenNeed You Author:Josephine Humphreys
“the mother's first job is to raise a daughter strong enough to outlast her.” FirstsEnoughJobsMotherStrongDaughterRaisesStrong Enough Author:Gail Caldwell
“My mother is very wise and intelligent. If I have children and can do half as good a job as she did in keeping me in line, I'll be very happy.” IfsChildrenJobsMotherCan DoLinesHalfWiseIntelligentVery HappyVery Wise Author:Brandon Lee
“My first job now is as a mother, everything else is secondary. My kids understand that I am an actress, and they are always so surprised to hear my voice on a cartoon character, or see my face on a video box. If it ever gets to be too much though, the career and the kids, I will simply set the career aside.” IfsFirstsCharacterKidsJobsFacesMotherVoiceCareersToo MuchBoxesActressesVideoCartoonCartoon Character Author:Joan Cusack