My rational mind knows I am blessed. So many women - some of whom I've interviewed over the years - endure infertility… — Kate Garraway Copy Share Image
It's unconscionable to breed with the number of children who are starving to death in impoverished countries, — Ashley Judd Copy Share Image
Childlessness doesn't make people selfish; selfishness makes people selfish. — Elizabeth Gilbert 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
I'm not that big a fan of marriage as an institution, and I don't know why women need to have children to… — Marisa Tomei Copy Share Image
If I had kids, my kids would hate me ... They would have ended up on the equivalent of the Oprah show… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
In accordance with my conception of life, I have chosen not to bring children into the world. A coin is examined, and… — Peter Wessel Zapffe Copy Share Image
Honestly, we'd probably be great parents. But it's a human being, and unless you think you have excellent skills and have a… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
I don't have children, and I am not sure if I have wanted them or never wanted them. It's weird not to… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
I'm completely happy not having children. I mean, everybody does not have to live in the same way. And as somebody said,… — Gloria Steinem 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
Something about family and trying to relate it to the movie with, 'Oh, if I was to have a child how many… — Jennifer Aniston Copy Share Image
I would have been a terrible mother because I'm basically a very selfish human being. Not that that has stopped most people… — Katharine Hepburn Copy Share Image
If any value is deeply evolutionarily familiar, it is reproductive success. If any value is truly unnatural, if there is one thing… — Satoshi Kanazawa Copy Share Image
There is simply no dignified way for a woman to live alone. Oh, she can get along financially perhaps (though not nearly… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“...it is plain that the proportion of celibates was high in the Roman empire and that the fall in the fertility of… — Eileen Power Copy Share Image
There have been times when I wanted children and other times I've been grateful not to have them. I am a mess… — Anjelica Huston Copy Share Image
“I had expected them to talk about my childlessness. I was armed with millions of smiles. Apologetic smiles, pity-me smiles, I-look-unto-God smiles… — Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ Copy Share Image
“The enduring rapture with magic and fable has always struck me as latently childish and somehow sexless (and thus also related to… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“At the cry of a new born salt is being sprinkle at the wound of a barren woman” — peter adejimi Copy Share Image
“He'd sensed the strength she'd called on to haul her sexuality out from under the weight of infertility. In his experience childlessness… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“Yes, her childlessness was a fugue in itself, a flight- this was the habitual theme she was trying now to resist- a… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
Maybe I wanted children, maybe I didn't, but I wanted the decision to be a choice, not a mandate. Last time I… — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
I'm a woman of a certain age who doesn't have kids and never really settled down ... I enjoy kids but not… — Kim Cattrall Copy Share Image
It was not my destiny, I kept thinking it would be, waiting for it to happen, but it never did, and I… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
I definitely don't want to have kids ... I don't think I'd be a great mother. I'm a great aunt or friend… — Chelsea Handler Copy Share Image
“There were a lot of these middle-aged single types in the neighborhood, shipwrecked by every kind of catastrophe, but she was one… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
No, what Great Aunt Winifred was suffering from was the persecution every happily single woman suffers: the predictable social condemnation of her… — Tobsha Learner Copy Share Image
“Wherever they went—Moscow, Tehran, the Syrian coast, Switzerland—a furnished house, villa, or apartment awaited the young couple. And their philosophies of life… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
