Maternity Leave Quotes:

Every time a woman leaves the workforce because she can't find or afford childcare, or she can't work out a flexible arrangement with her boss, or she has no paid maternity leave, her family's income falls down a notch. Simultaneously, national productivity numbers decline.

- Madeleine M. Kunin

source: "Sheryl Sandberg Is Half Right" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 13, 2013.

topic: Fall, Numbers, Work Out, Maternity Leave, Maternity

The elephant in the room time and time again when it comes to work and promotions is maternity leave. We need to work with businesses so they work with women and make it easy and supportive for them to come back into the workplace.

- Mary Portas

topic: Elephants, Supportive, Needs, Maternity Leave, Maternity

It's interesting that there's so many different sides of this: Women get frustrated that we don't get paid enough; and then the Republicans or the CEOs that are men say, "Well, it's because women take off time for maternity leave."

- Jennifer Lawrence

source: "Jennifer Lawrence, Cate Blanchett and Six More Top Actresses on Pay Gap, Sex Scenes and the Price of Speaking Frankly: 'There Is Always a Backlash'". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 18, 2015.

topic: Men, Interesting, Frustrated, Maternity Leave, Maternity

Beginning in the 1800s with the Industrial Revolution, when women started to go into the formal workforce, leaving working at home to working in factories, countries realized they needed to do something. And they started to pass paid maternity leave.

- Jody Heymann

source: Source: www.npr.org

topic: Country, Home, Leaving, Industrial Revolution, Maternity Leave

Voluntary paid maternity leave: yes; compulsory paid maternity leave: over this Government’s dead body, frankly. It just won’t happen.

- Tony Abbott

source: "Big new tax – debate over Abbott's parental leave plan [Transcript]". Uhlmann, C., www.abc.net.au. March 09, 2010.

topic: Government, Body, Maternity, Maternity Leave

In fact, in the last job I had before coming to the White House - I remember this clearly - I was on maternity leave with Sasha, still trying to figure out what to do with my life, and I got a call for an interview for this position, a senior position at the hospitals. And I thought, okay, here we go. So I had to scramble to look for babysitting, and couldn't find one.

- Michelle Obama

topic: Senior, Jobs, White, Maternity Leave, Babysitting

I have proposed maternity leave for mothers whose employers do not provide it.

- Donald Trump

source: Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

topic: Mother, Maternity, Employers, Maternity Leave

Maternity leave is over for Tina Fey of Saturday Night Live. She'll be back behind the Weekend Update anchor desk for this week's episode, her first show since giving birth to daughter Alice on Sept. 10. I had to get back to work, .. NBC has me under contract; the baby and I have only a verbal agreement.

- Tina Fey

topic: Daughter, Baby, Weekend, Maternity Leave, Maternity

My maternity leave will be a few weeks long and I'll work throughout it.

- Marissa Mayer

source: "So Marissa Mayer will be skipping maternity leave - how very American" by Jane Martinson, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2012.

topic: Long, Maternity, Week, Maternity Leave

I'm not taking maternity leave from 'Big Brother.' I e-mailed my boss over there this weekend and I said, 'Don't worry. I can still do the show!

- Julie Chen

topic: Brother, Weekend, Worry, Maternity Leave, Maternity