“Buying a house is a choice for Childfree and Childless people, not a requirement.” — Jay Zigmont Copy Share Image
“If you like your evening plans you aren't allowed to regret what led you to them.” — Taylor Jenkins Reid Copy Share Image
My role models were childless: Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“Menstruation annoys the most females who lack the desire to someday fall pregnant.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“In countless cases, parenthood has been the worst attempt to contribute something positive to the world.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“A child is one of the most common results of the lack or loss of self-control.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“If you are a woman who has chosen not to have children, society will always ask you to justify it.” — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“I would not have dreamed back then, could never have imagined, that one day I would be a childless mother too.” — Lori Lansens Copy Share Image
The noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men, which have sought to express the images of their minds where those… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“As an unavoidable result of the inevitable loss of some physical and/or some mental abilities, many a man who has been alive… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“I want to teach him his prayers and his letters and his manners. I want him for my own. Not just because… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“Although they probably know that some children were used and some children are used as miners, most adults are ignorant of the… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
This archaic idea - that a woman who is unmarried and childless at 30 is somehow unnatural - will probably always exist,… — Beth Ditto Copy Share Image
“We have nothing left. Orphans. Castaways." She turns to me. "Childless. That is what we are. The unwanted or the un-killed. We… — Bill Blais Copy Share Image
“The judge took into account “the profound despair of a woman unable to give life…” As if a man couldn’t be as… — Zidrou Copy Share Image
“Being a person is not nearly as overrated as having played a part in the initiation of the process that has led… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Not having children does not, as we childless people are often made to feel, render our lives less marked by love. How… — Shon Faye Copy Share Image
I have a romantic conception of the writer's life, and the sort of writer's life that I admire is probably a childless… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
“With no interruptions to admire dolly outfits, no tomorrow is a school day, we gorged on fruit and sorbet and splashed immoderate… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
The childless experts on child raising also bring tears of laughter to my eyes when they say, I love children because they're… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
I worry about dying alone, unmarried and childless, because I spent so much time pursuing my career and accumulating degrees. This kind… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“While motherhood is an incredible vocation, it has no more inherent worth than a childless woman simply being who she is, to… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
It was fine when I was single and childless. Carrying the responsibility of screwing up your kids at the same time is… — Olivia Williams Copy Share Image
You know whats happening over and over now is that young women hear this message and they either postpone or decide not… — James Dobson Copy Share Image
“If you want to know what's in motherhood for you, as a woman, then - in truth - it's nothing you couldn't… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
“For years I’d been awaiting that overriding urge I’d always heard about, the narcotic pining that draws childless women ineluctably to strangers’… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“I wanted to take a photo of his face just then. That boyish grin. That look of love, of contentedness. Couldn't he… — Sarah Jio Copy Share Image
But deciding not to have children is a very, very hard decision for a woman to make: the atmosphere is worryingly inconducive… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
“Bleak pushed the chair around a corner so the light of the dying sun stained their faces a healthy red, and added,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Most people celebrate the continuity of their existence so passionately that you would swear they chose to exist.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Tevis being childless meant you felt a little sorry for her, and a bit jealous. Probably the same way she felt about… — Monica Ali Copy Share Image
“...there’s few on Earth as can cut a man deeper than his childless wife.” — Craig Russell Copy Share Image
“Many of us are failed secret attempts to keep our parents together.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Is there anyone dearer than the children of people you love, especially when you don’t have your own?” — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
