A friend asked her doctor if a woman should have children…

A woman came to ask the doctor if a woman should have children after thirty-five. I said, 'Thirty-five children is enough for any woman.'

— Gracie Allen

“Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all thirty feet tall.”

— Larry Wilde

Oh, my gosh, thirty-eight hundred children are going to die tomorrow. What am I going to do to actually save some of them?

— Marjorie Dannenfelser

Certainly 'Zero Dark Thirty' is not for children!

— Alexandre Desplat

I’m thirty,” I said. “I’m five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Thirty-four,” he said, no pause. “Thirty-four years? Since you’ve been alone?” He nodded,”

— Hugh Howey

“And she cannot be a day over thirty-five,” he said adamantly. “I have noticed that after that the fruit becomes . . . less firm.”

— Wendy Wax

“Someone said that thirty was a significant birthday, and everyone around the table agreed. Someone else said it was the first time you heard…

— Graham Joyce

“I can't find the image, I said to myself. I'm thirty, I'm standing still, and I can't find the image.”

— Haruki Murakami

“I am life,’ the girl said. ‘What?’ he said, startled. ‘To you, I am life. What are you, thirty-eight? Forty? What have you learned?…

— Philip K. Dick

I would not be young again, if you offered me the world. But then I'm prejudiced.' 'You talk,' I said, 'as if you were…

— Daphne du Maurier

“Children left their old parents at home and scattered in all directions in search of money. It was hard on an old woman with…

— Chinua Achebe

I couldn't see tying myself down with a middle-aged woman with four children, even though the woman was my wife and the children were…

— Joseph Heller

It ought to be a crime for any woman to have children that writes books.

— Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon

In India's distant past, when the population was low, the blessing given a woman was, 'May you have many children.' Most of our epics…

— Indira Gandhi