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It is ironic that it doesn't matter how successful I am in any other capacity: ultimately, my parents' marker is 'Do you have a wife?' and 'Do you have children?'

— Aasif Mandvi

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I think your children are your measure of success, regardless of work and career.

— John Rhys-Davies

Success, and even life itself, wouldn't be worth anything if I didn't have my wife and children by my side. They mean everything to me.

— Jude Law

My family didn't have a lot of money, so I worked my heart out to get my degrees. But the minute I graduated, suddenly everyone was asking me, 'Well, when are you going to get married and start having kids?' And the truth is I had no idea how I would balance the expected role of wife and mother with a challenging career.

— Michelle Obama

It's always astounded me to have succeeded at having kids. It's crazy!

— Carla Bruni

Was I a successful father? Maybe not. Was I a successful husband? Probably not. Was I a successful actor? Probably not.

— Sid Haig

At my age, no one is married, no one has kids, no one has a career.

— Lena Dunham

I am a better mother for having something in my life and not just my children.

— Katherine Heigl

I think I may have failed at a lot of things, but the one thing I can say, and that I'm proud of, is that I am a good parent.

— Naveen Andrews

I don't want to look back and say, 'Yeah, I was really successful, but I failed at fatherhood because I wasn't there.'

— Zac Brown

✗Opposing Perspectives

I have seven children by six different mothers. Maybe success was too good to me.

— Eazy-E