Childlessness Quote by Elizabeth Gilbert Download Open image “Childlessness doesn't make people selfish; selfishness makes people selfish.” — Elizabeth Gilbert ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Childlessness People People Selfish Selfish Selfishness
Bizarrely, I've been called selfish for not having children. Surely it's more selfish to have a child when you don't really want a child? — Jane Fallon Copy Share Image
I don't want to have kids and so I am not going to have kids. People who want kids are going to have kids.… — Jen Kirkman Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, it's not until you've had children that you discover how selfish you actually are. That's one of the paradoxical aspects of becoming a… — Mark Cleary Copy Share Image
Parenthood helps you be less selfish, because you don't care about anything as much as you do them. — Tom Fletcher Copy Share Image
If I had children, I would be very selfish. I wouldn't be out doing things. But by not having kids, it makes me freer… — Linda Blair Copy Share Image
Human beings are selfish by nature. Everything that happens to a child, you immediately grab your own child and say, "I will never let… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to life. Selfishness always aims at… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I also know that I won't go forth and have children just in case I might regret missing it later in life; I don't… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I'm a bit selfish and everyone needs to be selfish. Else they will not become anything in their life. — Regina Cassandra Copy Share Image
That's your friend. My husband is my best friend. He's not the mirror that holds up my flaws. He's just the guy who's like,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Not to mention that I have finally arrived at that age where a woman starts to question whether the wisest way to get over… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“The Buddha taught that all human suffering is rooted in desire. Don't we all know this to be true? Any of us who have… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“And while [we] do have possibilities that are vast and magnificent and almost infinite in scope, it's important to remember that our choice-rich lives… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
If we never leave our house except to drive to work, do we need to be even remotely aware of this powerful, humbling, extraordinary… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I will tell you why we have these extraordinary minds and souls, Miss Whittaker," he continued, as though he had not heard her. "We… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Both the five-year-olds looked at me with bewilderment and a bit of fearful uncertainty. I had a sudden horrifying image of the woman I… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Clearing out all your misery gets you out of the way. You cease being an obstacle, not only to yourself but to anyone else.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The ingredients of both darkness and light are equally present in all of us,...The madness of this planet is largely a result of the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I was full of a hot, powerful sadness and would have loved to burst into the comfort of tears, but tried hard not to,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“I live in nature where everything is connected, circular. The seasons are circular. The planet is circular, and so is the planet around the… — Elizabeth Gilbert 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 deeply affected… — 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 kids do… — Jennifer Aniston 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
“If you like your evening plans you aren't allowed to regret what led you to them.” — Taylor Jenkins Reid 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 going off… — Katharine Hepburn 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 of the… — Junot Díaz 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 marriages was… — 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 if I… — Anjelica Huston 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 be seen… — Marisa Tomei 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 drive or… — Ellen DeGeneres 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 as well… — Erica Jong 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 that humans… — Satoshi Kanazawa Copy Share Image
