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As far as I'm concerned, there's no job more important on the planet than being a mom.

In my experience (I am the lone father of an eight-year-old boy who lost his mother when he was one year old), parenting is the most difficult of all jobs: forget your chief executives, editors, prime ministers and the like - parenting is far more challenging.

There are times as a parent when you realize that your job is not to be the parent you always imagined you'd be, the parent you always wished you had. Your job is to be the parent your child needs, given the particulars of his or her own life and nature.

Being mum is a number one job. That takes priority.

Career is important, but nothing really supersedes my roles as a mother.

Being a parent is the hardest job ever in life.

As we all know, there is no harder or more rewarding job than being a mom.

Parenting is an impossible job at any age.

A mother's job... is very much to hold back the coming of manhood.

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.