Pooja Bhatt Quotes

The absence of doll babies in my toy chest didn't seriously influence my later decision not to become a mother; rather, I disdained Hasbro's Baby Alive wetting doll because I was already the kind of girl who would grow up to be childless by choice.

But I'd made up my mind early on in life that I never wanted to be a mother.

There are loads of women that don't want children. What does it matter? I'm still a woman.

I don't think 'Motherhood' is a map for women. I would never say that it's a template for every woman in response to her biology.

Motherhood is more than bearing children...It is the essence of who we are as women.

I am no mother, and I won't be one.

I didn't have children, but I never wanted children.

I had a pregnancy that wasn't private... A lot of people had their opinions about it. They were surprised that I came up pregnant, which was a surprise to me, because I'm a woman, and women get pregnant, and Lauren comes first before the actress, so having my son was the best thing that ever happened to me.

I didn't wake up one day and think, 'I'm not going to have children.' My mother was a housewife and brought up three children, so I just thought it would happen.

Whenever a female takes a strong stand for herself, the majority of the time they have to really, really narrow it down to being feminine and wearing dresses and just being lipstick chic.

I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.

Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive.

I grew up with that completely fictive idea of motherhood, where the mother never strayed from the kitchen. All the women in my books are very afraid that if they do anything with their minds they won't be complete women. I don't think my daughters' generation has that feeling.

I never planned on having children, that's never been a desire of mine.

I wanted to talk to a lot of women about their experiences along the path to motherhood - or along the path to not being a mother.

How can feminism be pro-women without being pro-motherhood? There is nothing more unique about being a woman.

Women have a mother-nature and a daughter-nature; there are no women with a wife-nature. The quality of wife is an acquired character; it is a combination of mother and daughter.

Most of the beauty of women evaporates when they achieve domestic happiness at the price of their independence.

There's a lot more to being a woman than being 18 years old on the cover of Maxim magazine.

Women do feel like they're in a box. Society, Hollywood, some men-they want to wrap women up in a neat little package.

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

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

You're raised to think being a mother is an inevitable step in your development but you start to ask yourself questions, because not every woman does want to have children.

Our culture has created two almost irreconcilable descriptions of a 'good woman.' The first is the individual achiever; the second, the self-sacrificing domestic goddess.

I'm a mom, but I don't always want to look just like that.