- Nov 07, 2020
Stay-At-Home Quotes
On staying home, and everything that choice carries.
These stay-at-home quotes weigh the guilt, sacrifice, and identity shifts that come with choosing to raise Children full-time rather than clock in somewhere else.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a decade, I was a stay-at-home mom. I sent my husband to his law office, sat on PTA boards and baked cookies - great cookies. All of a sudden, I had no husband, no job, few prospects, and two small children who had grown accustomed to eating.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was a working woman, and I was alone a lot. So I wanted to be a stay-at-home mom.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad was a plumber, and my mom was on and off again, either a stay-at-home mom or working with the disabled as a visiting-nurse assistant.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Stay-at-home mothers, working mothers, people are very tough on each other. I don't see that in the world of men. I don't see working men who have children, and those who don't, judging each other. I think there's a different category of expectation.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do a one-hour workout called Drenched, a cardio-boxing fitness routine, Monday through Friday. There are usually between twenty-five and fifty people there - everyone from stay-at-home moms and professional martial artists to teenagers and seniors. They play great dance music. When I can, I take two classes back-to-back.
- Fun
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm kind of lucky that we've finished shooting 'Cougar Town,' so I'm able to kind of just enjoy my pregnancy and be a stay-at-home mom and go to prenatal Pilates and do all that fun stuff that, if I were working, would be almost impossible to do.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whether you are a stay-at-home mum, or on the red carpet, or in Afghanistan, the better you feel, the better you do your job.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the beginning, I was a stay-at-home dad. So I could actually focus on being a rapper. I could write. I could come up with ideas.
- Success
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- Nov 07, 2020
Look, if you ask a child, 'Would you rather have a fulfilled mother or a stay-at-home Sylvia Plath,' they'll pick Sylvia Plath every time. But I think it's really important that children don't feel their parents' emotional lives depend on their success.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're a stay-at-home mother you have to pretend it's really boring, but it's not. It's enriching and fulfilling, and an amazing experience. And then when you're a working mother you have to pretend that you feel guilty all day long.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was a stay-at-home mom until I was about 11, when she got a job - and it was like a light came on inside her. It's not wrong to be passionate about your career. When you love what you do, you bring that stimulation back to your family.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020