Childless by Choice Quotes

I don't ever want to have kids of my own. But I do want a lot of kids.

I still can’t say whether I ever want children….I can only say how I feel now--grateful to be on my own. I also know that I won’t go forth and have children just in case I might regret missing it later in life; I don’t think this is a strong enough motivation to bring more babies onto the earth.

I've never been pregnant, so I just feel God didn't mean for me to have kids so that everybody else's children could be mine.

People still think that a woman who doesn't have children or doesn't want children is really lacking in something. I've seen this over and over again in my life. I've had this thinking used against me repeatedly. I remember I had a therapist once, and I brought this up, and she said, "Well, I think women who don't have children feel very self-critical. They feel bad, so they think other people are critical in that way."

People who have children, by and large, want children. People who don't want children are people who, by and large, don't want to have children. And why would you expect one set to be happier than another?

The mother of the year should be a sterilized woman with two adopted children

Why should I marry? One marries to have children, but I already have children! My nieces and nephews are my children.

I know I'm missing something, but those who have children are missing what I get to do. And frankly, I'm probably missing more of what I don't want than what I do. Some may call me selfish or narcissistic, but I don't want to spend my time going to PTA meetings. The only way I could have children and do the work I do is to have a househusband - and I'm not attracted to a househusband. I'd rather affect children with the work I do.

Having no children had been a kind of choice up to the moment when, from a choice, it became a sadness.

For some reason, I never felt the need to have kids. My wife feels the same. We don't feel a void. I don't think they would give my life meaning. I do think of the books as my children, though. Whatever is inside of me, I put into my books.

I think that women are afraid to say they don't want children because they're going to get shunned.

I decided then and there I was never going to have kids.

We never had any children," he said ruefully. "Our work was our children.

It was not my destiny, I kept thinking it would be, waiting for it to happen, but it never did, and I didn't care what people thought ... It was only boring old men who would ask me. And whenever they went, 'What? No children? Well, you'd better get on with it, old girl,' I'd say 'No! F*** off!'

Children are the last thing I want. I hate all children. For other people, it's fine, but not for me. I was born not to be a family person.

I don't have kids at all and I thank God that I never did.

I've forbidden my daughter to have grandchildren, I'm too young.

People think that you are a nasty, selfish person if you don't want to have children.

I don't have children, and I don't want children.

So all my friends have kids now... which I think is rude.

I don't have this sort of checklist of things that have to be done, andif they're not checked, then I've failed some part of my feminism or my being a woman or my worth and my value as a woman because I haven't birthed a child. I've birthed a lot of things, and I feel like I've mothered many things. And I don't feel like it's fair to put that pressure on people.

We both liked children; we just didn't want any ourselves. There were children everywhere, and we saw no reason to start our own brand. Young couples plunge into parenthood and about half the time they end up with some ghastly problem on their hands. We thought we'd leave that to others.

Bizarrely, I've been called selfish for not having children. Surely it's more selfish to have a child when you don't really want a child?

I love kids with a passion I usually reserve for hot cheese, miniature chairs, and Prince concerts, but I feel no stress to reproduce simply because of a fear of withering eggs.

Not having children isn't something I regret. I acknowledge that some things have been easier for me than they would have been for others.