Quote:
"I think I identify with all the women in my films [the Working Mothers series]. When my child was young I was working full time and was also responsible for all the housework, the shopping, and the cooking, and trying to spend some time with my child every day in a relaxed, playful atmosphere. And I was also responsible for a lot of work for my husband who free-lanced and needed a lot of support. And when I was doing all that, I perpetually felt inadequate, as if I were on the brink of failure all the time. But I think that if I'd seen films which, in effect, said, 'This is an impossible situation,' and if I could have seen that other people were in very similar situations, it would have given me a lot of support. [...] It would perhaps have given me enough strength to go some distance towards changing the situation."
-- Kathleen Shannon

Source:
Thorvaldson, Patricia. "Women making films: Three interviews." Interview with Kathleen Shannon, Barbara Greene, Dana Lieberman. Pot Pourri: National Film Board Newsletter, June 1974. (pp. 5-6)