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I was not a very good mother. I was always running out to do a movie or something. If I had to do it over, I would either have a career or children. I wouldn't do both unless I could work in my home. I spent 20 years feeling guilty, which is not a very nice emotion.

I feel intensely guilty for working... You have to be able to provide for your kids. But I feel like it's a weird modern phenomenon that you always feel guilty for it.

I often feel very guilty because of the time that I spend outside of my home and the little time that sometimes I have for my kids.

I've shared the fate of many working mothers; I felt guilty like them.

You can still love your job and feel guilty. You can still love your child and feel guilty. There's a lot of grey in that. It's about being conscious when you are spending time with your kids, being with them in the moment.

There are days when I struggle with wanting to be a full-time, stay-at-home mom, and feeling guilty about that because I work.

Although my life is far from perfect, the irony is that in a divorced parent's custody schedule - with days on and days off - instead of like it was before, when I felt ragged and still oddly guilty all the time, now I feel guilty but not ragged.

I expend far too much of my maternal energies on guilt and regret.

This whole generation of parents - I'm guilty of it too - does too much for their kids.

Though I made my share of mistakes, as all parents do, I was devoted to my kids. I walked them to school every morning and walked back to pick them up at 3.