I never went through a biological clock experience. I never even heard it ticking.
I think it's hard, the fact that there's a certain age that we can't have kids anymore.
For women of a certain age, how do you meet a guy, fall in love, and decide he's the right man to have children with? Your clock's ticking, you're looking at him, and it's a crazy, pressure-filled experience.
A friend asked her doctor if a woman should have children after thirty-five. I said, "Thirty-five children is enough for any woman.
In my family, people become pregnant at 33 or something, not 26.
The dangers of eating animal products occur after the age of reproduction. If people developed cardiovascular disease that was fatal by the age of twelve or thirteen, eating animals would have died out long ago. You get it after you've already reproduced.
Most of my best friends had children in their early 40s.
It seems like, to me, somewhere between 30 and 35 is a really, really good time to turn your eggs into babies.
Every batch of sperm represents an opportunity for genetic typos - called de novo mutations - to be passed on. A 20-year-old man and woman will each pass on about 20 de novo mutations to a baby they conceive. By the time the couple is 40, a woman's total has remained at 20, while a man's has jumped to 65 - and it keeps climbing from there.
I never thought I was going to have children. I just thought after 45, that was it.
Most doctors want to keep their success rates high, so they'd rather deal with someone who is younger, who has healthier eggs and more of them.
When you're in your mid-thirties, the cult of people who have children around you all want you in their cult, and they constantly ask you, 'So when are you going to have a baby?'
I'm torn about late parenting. I believe people should spend their twenties living and having fun and not having any regrets later. I also think people in their thirties generally make better parents but so many of my friends are having trouble - myself included - as fathers get older.
Women are now very comfortable to have babies into their late 30s. You can be a father in your 50s. I'm not saying it's for everybody, and I think people have to get their own life secure before they take on the responsibility of a partner and children.
I'm a late bloomer. Being a late bloomer is a problem when you decide at 40 you want to have children.
Early thirties for women is a very intense time. If you want kids, and you're not in a relationship, there's an urgency there, so they're forced to mature quicker. It's easy for a man in his thirties to be immature - you can have kids into your fifties, whereas women just can't.
I think my biological clock ticking is more worrying for me than getting the right roles.
My mom told me, 'Make sure you do everything you want to do before you have kids.' So that's what I was doing. But biologically, the body is just like, 'Well, you should have done it.'
You either have a baby, want a baby, or don't want a baby, but you don't nothing a baby if you're in your 30s or 40s.
I didn't think about having kids until like I was 48, 49 years old.
