"Childlessness doesn't make people selfish; selfishness makes people……" — Elizabeth Gilbert
"Childlessness doesn't make people selfish; selfishness makes people selfish."
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507 Quotes by Elizabeth Gilbert
Elizabeth Gilbert has 507 quotes on this site.
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To sit patiently with a yearning that has not yet been fulfilled, and to trust that, that fulfillment will come,…
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When I diagnose my depression now, I think it was partially about saying goodbye to these kids that I always…
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There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under my jurisdiction. There…
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My life acccomplishments? Sanity, and you
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Embrace the glorious mess that you are
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Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You must fight for it, strive for it, and insist upon it.
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My life's accomplishments? Sanity, and you.
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People always fall in love with the most perfect aspects of each other's personalities. Who wouldn't? Anybody can love the…
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I want to have a lasting experience with God. Sometimes I feel like I understand the divinity of this world,…
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I myself have never been enchanted by the dream of the white wedding, and, heaven help us, the expectation that…
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That competition and the struggle for existence is the mechanism behind this state of perpetual change.
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Every woman deserves a man that can make her heart forget that it was ever broken. Even if these have…
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More Childlessness Quotes
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one of 16 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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There is simply no dignified way for a woman to live alone. Oh, she can get along financially perhaps (though…
— Erica Jong
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It was not my destiny, I kept thinking it would be, waiting for it to happen, but it never did,…
— Helen Mirren
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I'm completely happy not having children. I mean, everybody does not have to live in the same way. And as…
— Gloria Steinem
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If I had kids, my kids would hate me ... They would have ended up on the equivalent of the…
— Oprah Winfrey
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Honestly, we'd probably be great parents. But it's a human being, and unless you think you have excellent skills and…
— Ellen DeGeneres
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I would have been a terrible mother because I'm basically a very selfish human being. Not that that has stopped…
— Katharine Hepburn
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There have been times when I wanted children and other times I've been grateful not to have them. I am…
— Anjelica Huston
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I'm a woman of a certain age who doesn't have kids and never really settled down ... I enjoy kids…
— Kim Cattrall
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I definitely don't want to have kids ... I don't think I'd be a great mother. I'm a great aunt…
— Chelsea Handler
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Something about family and trying to relate it to the movie with, 'Oh, if I was to have a child…
— Jennifer Aniston
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I'm not that big a fan of marriage as an institution, and I don't know why women need to have…
— Marisa Tomei
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I don't have children, and I am not sure if I have wanted them or never wanted them. It's weird…
— Margaret Cho
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