Egg Freezing Quotes

I should be married and have 19 kids. And now I'm thinking my eggs are dying on the shelf. They're going to go past their expiration date. But it's what I chose, so I'm fine with that decision.

I told her I wanted a plastic surgeon to sew me up, and I wanted her to freeze my ovaries, so I could harvest the eggs and have a biological child through a surrogate.

Just when my biological clock started ticking, I found out it was going to be virtually impossible. And it was very hard.

Just when your ovaries should be brimming with youthful follicles, cancerous cells overtook mine, threatening to end my fertility and potentially my life.

After two and a half engagements, of course I want to get married and have babies, so I am going to freeze my eggs.

I don't think a lot of women know how much their chances of having a child diminish as they age.

How many of those forty-something celebrities, staring out from the covers of magazines with their beautiful babies, have conceived naturally, or without assistance? Not as many as you might think I would wager - yet for so many women they act as fertility beacons, a symbol of hope in a landscape of diminishing fertility.

It seems like, to me, somewhere between 30 and 35 is a really, really good time to turn your eggs into babies.

Women right now kind of have this idea of success - putting your career first and then having kids. On one side, it's perfect and it's a great plan, but on the other side, they don't explain to you that after age 35, you start losing eggs.

After 40, your chances of getting pregnant are between two and eight percent, and in my particular case, they were less than five percent.

When a woman opens up about her fertility struggles, I feel less alone, and I hope to help others in the same way.

Every major life decision in my 20s and 30s - when to get married, where to buy an apartment, whether to freeze my eggs until after the election - had revolved around a single looming question: What about Hillary Clinton?

The option to freeze one's eggs is just about the most empowering choice a single woman who knows she wants to be a mother can make.

So many women waited until later to get married and then even later after they got married to have children. And then they have problems, and it takes them five, six, seven years to have children.

I see lots of women having beautiful children later in life. And, if not, just freeze your eggs!

There is also an epidemic of infertility in this country. There are more women who have put off child-bearing in favor of their professional lives. For them, the only way they are going to have a family is to adopt from China.

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.

For lots of reasons, including working crazy hours and having a job that required significant travel, I did not start trying to have a baby until I was in my late 30s. My experience is hardly unique. I am one of countless women who almost waited too long without realizing it.

Unfortunately, with fertility, time is not your friend. People are waiting longer to get married and longer to have kids, and so many more people are experiencing fertility issues. But no one ever talks about it.

One of my best friends had a tough time getting pregnant, and her situation had me really thinking about freezing my eggs.

I want to be, like, a fertility minister. Like, someone who takes you by the hand and tells you that it'll be OK.

Despite amazing advances in fertility to help older women get pregnant, the complications, increased chances of autism, and chromosomal abnormalities are significant considerations.

We have a generation of women who think that they can just have IVF, and everything will be fine. The odds are against you once you start having IVF, and the odds are against you over the age of 35. And to pretend that it's easy to have a baby in your 40s or 50s is - it's just selling women a false dream.

I'm a late bloomer. Being a late bloomer is a problem when you decide at 40 you want to have children.

There's a lot of technology out there to help people have children in different ways, and later in life, for better or worse.