Elizabeth-gilbert Quote by Elizabeth Gilbert

But deciding not to have children is a very, very hard decision for a woman to make: the atmosphere is worryingly inconducive to saying,…

— Caitlin Moran

“For the first time since giving birth so many years before, I grew weary of motherhood, and wondered how many more generations of women…

— Jean Sasson

“If you are a woman who has chosen not to have children, society will always ask you to justify it.”

— Gloria Steinem

“Not having children does not, as we childless people are often made to feel, render our lives less marked by love. How we cultivate…

— Shon Faye

“If you want to know what's in motherhood for you, as a woman, then - in truth - it's nothing you couldn't get from,…

— Caitlin Moran

“While motherhood is an incredible vocation, it has no more inherent worth than a childless woman simply being who she is, to the utmost…

— Caitlin Moran

“Now I understand why women want to have children - it's simply the urge to create happiness for yourself, somehow to fill the oppressive,…

— Nina Lugovskaya

“At a certain point in her life, she realises it is not so much that she wants to have a child as that she…

— Lydia Davis

“As it happens, there are many reasons why I don’t have children: I am very good at birth control; though I love children and…

— Rebecca Solnit

“The world is full of women who have children, and women who don’t, but there is also a silent band of women who almost…

— Rachel Joyce

“Yes, it’s unfortunate that we have been conditioned to see an alternative to motherhood as not normal. But you do all realise that some…

— Dawn O'Porter

“was particularly hard for women now, when there were so many children left without”

— Alexander McCall Smith