Quote by Glen Duncan

“Yes, her childlessness was a fugue in itself, a flight- this was the habitual theme she was trying now to resist- a flight from…

— Ian McEwan

“What would she have made of her life in the absence of childbirth? Maybe no more than she did in its presence and to…

— Debbie McGowan

“As I grew into womanhood my confusion at the world became more apparent. I was taking comfort in behaviours that were familiar, not bathing,…

— Jane Hersey

“Putting that aside, did he even want another child? At all? ever? She thought he did, but now that she considered it, she saw…

— Liane Moriarty

“Pregnant women made him nervous, particularly when their condition sailed before them like the prow of some small, feminine ship.”

— Grace Burrowes

“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

“He would seduce her so thoroughly that she would no longer be able to conceive of herself apart from him; she would be his…

— Karen Marie Moning

“There was an aura about him that was staggering to her, making it difficult to think. It wasn't mere male heat and sensuality. It…

— Kresley Cole

“He wanted women to love him, all women, beginning with his mother and going on from there. Therefore, whenever any woman got mad at…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“He still had not the slightest understanding of why he had really come; he blamed himself for a late flare of desire crudely masked…

— Herman Wouk

A man was like a child with his appetites. A woman had to yield him what he wanted, or like a child he would…

— D. H. Lawrence

“She didn’t know what to make of this sporadic urgency with him. It had confounded and humiliated her for the thirty years of their…

— Ayana Mathis