Quotes about Juggling

The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and torturous. ANNA QUINDLEN

Mire, mire! called the man. He was fishing about in his pockets and soon he was juggling four small wooden balls in front of Glanton's horse. The horse snorted and lifted its head and Glanton leaned over the saddle and spat and wiped his mouth with the back of his hand. Aint that the drizzlin shits, he said.

There is no such thing as work-life balance. There is work, there is life, and there is no balance.

Like every working mother, there's guilt involved in deciding how you're going to balance family and work.

Maybe you can't have it both ways. His life and your life. How do you put two lives together, anyway?

I used to meditate all the time in bed. That was when I was raising my daughter, and I'd get her up and off to school, and then I would go back to bed and meditate. And then I would do the same in the evening, and that was very good for that period because I had so many things to juggle as a single mother.

Someone once told me that God figured that I was a pretty good juggler. I could keep a lot of balls in the air at one time. So He said, "Let's see if he can juggle another one."

I've always said if I'm winning at one thing, I'm failing at another.

The topic of working moms is a tap-dance recital in a minefield.