“The family acted like I was going to the moon,” Jennifer Garner explained regarding her decision to travel alone to Toronto to promote her new film. “Even though [husband] Ben [Affleck] is there with the children and they will be fine, Violet was wondering, ‘Where is Mom going?’ We travel together all the time.” - more at Celebrity Baby Blog

"Growing up in Los Angeles, I was surrounded by plenty of working moms, including my grandmother, a pediatrician, and my mother, a writer and producer. This seemed very natural to me. I just thought, Well, that’s what moms do. They work and raise their kids. I was brought up to believe I could do anything I wanted professionally and, of course, be a mother at the same time—but I’m finding that it’s complicated. It requires a lot of thought and planning, and I haven’t figured it out yet." - Celebrity Baby Scoop: "I Don't Want To Miss A Thing"

"My daughter comes with me everywhere... I don’t leave her behind. But it is hard. I mean, I think any working mother will tell you that what kind of falls by the wayside, you know, are the hours of sleep that you wish you had, and all that. I feel incredibly lucky and blessed, but I do sometimes feel like that exorcist lady!" - Long Island Press

" I feel like women are a role model to me. I'm constantly meeting working moms in my audience who achieve so much in their lives that I feel encouraged and empowered by them. We're all going through the motions of working and raising our children and being good wives -- as best we can. ... I don't know if I [juggle family and career] particularly well. I try my hardest at work and at home. I'm very lucky in that I have the best hours a person could hope for; I get to pick my kids up every day from school and take them to all their activities. I'm able to devote the time that I think they need."

"I feel like I will be the best mom I can be if I am a happy person. And for me, it makes me happy to go to work and do something, and [then] come home and be the mom. You keep your sanity first, and then save the baby." - Oprah: Moms Continue the Conversation

"I am very fulfilled in my home life, and what films do for me is to create an ironclad structure that, in my life as a mom, does not exist. It is a shapeless blob of happy chaos-- so it's certainly nice to have that shape. Acting fulfills me in a creative way that has this myopic focus -- and it gives me something to talk about at dinner. That can't be underrated, really. A lot of the mom struggle in life is that everything happens within the four walls of the home, and it can lose its luster a little bit, maybe. You just have to bring it in from outside sometimes." - Allure, March

"I am an "all kinds" of mom. I'm a working mom, so I definitely have those moments where I wish I could be home with the kids. But I'm lucky that my job isn't all day every day, so I do get to be there for the school fairs, plays, and volunteering in the classroom." - Parents, March 2009

I [balance work with raising 2 kids] with great precision. I plan everything in advance: who's picking up. We have charts, maps and lists on the fridge, all over the house. I sometimes feel like I'm with the CIA."
People 2/23

"I know for sure that you can tell how smart people are by what they laugh at. I know for sure that a hard-boiled egg is two points on Weight Watchers. I know for sure that my kid needs my husband and me to be with her more." - From O Magazine 2/2009

"It was nice to be away for a while, but I was ready.
I made a deal with myself that when my youngest went to kindergarten, I would go back to work full-time, and it worked. Knock on wood, it keeps going." -- People