Children Quote by Junot Díaz

“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

“...maybe she just doesn't like children. Nobody likes children, your mother assured you. That doesn't mean you don't have them.”

— Junot Díaz

“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

“No one wanted to talk to a mother whose only child had just killed herself.”

— Kimberly McCreight

“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

“But just as no one really knows what it is like to be a mother until she holds her first child, no one who…

— Gregg Olsen

“She hadn’t ever wanted children and yet she had. She had and she did”

— Maggie O'Farrell

“I don't know what happened to your parents or why they did what they did. But in all the world, I could have wished…

— John Stephens

“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

“My mom thought having a child was going to be like having a partner, but every child is born the center of its own…

— Trevor Noah

“My child? A man has no children, it is only woman who has children, and therefore the future is hers when we die childless.”

— August Strindberg

“No mother is ever, completely, a child’s idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way around as…

— Margaret Atwood