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It was an odd coincidence that my career took off the same decade as having babies. I often wished it had been different, that I had my big career bump in my thirties and my babies in my forties or vice versa.

— Jane Kaczmarek

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Throughout my 20s and early 30s, I had jobs that I loved. I worked in city government. I ran a youth organization. I served as an associate dean at a university. And I couldn't imagine how a baby would fit into all of that.

— Michelle Obama

Having a baby is a disaster for your career. I don't think there's any sympathy.

— Mariella Frostrup

When I got pregnant, I had to concentrate on being pregnant for a whole nine months, even though I knew it was ruining my career at the time.

— Yoko Ono

Motherhood was my career. I'm totally satisfied with that.

— Ann Romney

I really thought when I was pregnant with my first that it wouldn't affect my work at all; it would just be a baby that grows up on set. And I was absolutely wrong. For women, the high point of their career and needing to have babies just don't really go together.

— Jennifer Garner

I gave up my childhood for a career.

— Brenda Lee

I'd long wanted to write about that moment when a woman steps off the career track to have her first child. For me, that was a scary time.

— Hallie Ephron

✗Opposing Perspectives

It will be exciting to have my child share my career and to remember what I was like when I was young.

— Candace Parker

No babies for me until I'm in my 30s! I'm focused on my career right now. I can't even take care of my dog.

— Chanel Iman

I have always felt that my career was not going to be a straight shot up, but more of a kind of rolling wave, so that I could raise my children. So I got pregnant when I was the head of production at a studio, and I became chairperson at a bigger studio when I was pregnant with my second daughter. You just do it!

— Stacey Snider