Absurd Quote by Sydney J. Harris

Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.

— Michael Levine

“For many women,’ she said, ‘having a child is their central experience of creativity, and yet the child will never remain a created object;…

— Rachel Cusk

Having kids is a full-time job. And I don't know any woman who isn't constantly fighting between the exquisite selfishness required to be an…

— Liz W. Garcia

Simply having children does not make mothers.

— Anonymous

Unless women have, from the moment of birth, socialization for, expectations of, and preparation for a viable significant alternative to motherhood . . .…

— Wilma Scott Heide

Having children is not an act of God. It's not like you're walking down the street and pregnancy strikes you; children are a result…

— Walter E. Williams

“Just because women can bear children doesn't mean they're unable to harbour the same sort of career ambitions as a man.”

— Cathy Kelly

While so much is said of the inferior intellect of woman, it is by a strange absurdity conceded that very many eminent men owe…

— Matilda Joslyn Gage

I feel like there are women who are genuinely born to be mothers, and women who are born to be aunties, and women who…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“The fallacy of conception: two halves join and expect to make a whole.”

— Laura Elizabeth Woollett

I just think some women aren't made to be mothers. And some women aren't made to be daughters.

— Gillian Flynn

The reason most people have kids is because they get pregnant.

— Barbara Kingsolver