Childlessness Quotes

16 quotes by 16 authors

There is simply no dignified way for a woman to live alone. Oh, she can get along financially perhaps (though not nearly as well as… — Erica Jong
It was not my destiny, I kept thinking it would be, waiting for it to happen, but it never did, and I didn't care what… — Helen Mirren
I'm completely happy not having children. I mean, everybody does not have to live in the same way. And as somebody said, 'Everybody with a… — Gloria Steinem
If I had kids, my kids would hate me ... They would have ended up on the equivalent of the Oprah show talking about me;… — Oprah Winfrey
Honestly, we'd probably be great parents. But it's a human being, and unless you think you have excellent skills and have a drive or yearning… — Ellen DeGeneres
I would have been a terrible mother because I'm basically a very selfish human being. Not that that has stopped most people going off and… — Katharine Hepburn
There have been times when I wanted children and other times I've been grateful not to have them. I am a mess if I have… — Anjelica Huston
I'm a woman of a certain age who doesn't have kids and never really settled down ... I enjoy kids but not for long periods.… — Kim Cattrall
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 of a mother… — Chelsea Handler
Something about family and trying to relate it to the movie with, 'Oh, if I was to have a child how many kids do I… — Jennifer Aniston
I'm not that big a fan of marriage as an institution, and I don't know why women need to have children to be seen as… — Marisa Tomei
I don't have children, and I am not sure if I have wanted them or never wanted them. It's weird not to be able to… — Margaret Cho
If any value is deeply evolutionarily familiar, it is reproductive success. If any value is truly unnatural, if there is one thing that humans (and… — Satoshi Kanazawa
No, what Great Aunt Winifred was suffering from was the persecution every happily single woman suffers: the predictable social condemnation of her independence and childlessness.… — Tobsha Learner
Childlessness doesn't make people selfish; selfishness makes people selfish. — Elizabeth Gilbert
Maybe I wanted children, maybe I didn't, but I wanted the decision to be a choice, not a mandate. Last time I checked, childlessness was… — Peggy Orenstein

Who Wrote These Childlessness Quotes

16 authors contributed a total of 16 Childlessness Quotes as follows: