Alive Quote by Lionel Shriver

I was given baby doll toys myself, and they proved a stark reminder that my life was expected to revolve around childbearing - just…

— Beth Ditto

Since I was as young as I can remember, my dolls became my babies. I still have my teddy bear from childhood that I…

— Jacqueline Fernandez

I was an unhappy child, and that puts me off having a child of my own.

— Meg Cabot

When I was born, my mother was very disappointed. She wanted a son. I knew that from a very early age. So I was…

— Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

For a long time I didn't believe that I couldn't become a mother. But when I finally came to terms with it, then I…

— Shabana Azmi

I made a conscious decision that I was not going to have children. I didn't want others raising them, and looking after them myself…

— Stevie Nicks

Just because I cut the heads off dolls doesn't mean I hate babies, I just hate dolls.

— Alice Cooper

Being a mother is not about what you gave up to have a child, but what you've gained from having one.

— Sunny Gupta

I realized relatively early on that I had no desire to be a mother whatsoever. I actually love children, but specifically other people's.

— Cindy Gallop

My mother did not like children.

— Karl Lagerfeld

I did not want to raise a genetically compromised child. I did not want my children to have to contend with the massive diversion…

— Ayelet Waldman

Babies did not attract me, and I was altogether without the maternal sense so highly developed in small and adolescent girls.

— Rita Levi-Montalcini