Reproductive Decisions Quotes

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't either.

This is exactly why Patrick and I chose not to have children." he muttered. "So we would never have to have conversations like this. Andy yet...here I am?""If you could answer the question," I said as politely as I could, "that would be great. I really don't want to have a freaky demon baby, and I can't imagine John wants one, either

When we had been married five years, we had six children. What, in God's name, was wrong with me?

When it comes to having children or not having children, I don't think we realise how many women have to deal with things quietly.

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!'

I don't think there's ever a right time to have kids. I'm actually pretty glad it's happened quite young.

I don't like [the pressure] that people put on me, on women, that you've failed yourself as a female because you haven't procreated. This continually is said about me: that I was so career-driven and focused on myself; that I don't want to be a mother, and how selfish that is.

When the ordinary thought of a highly cultivated people begins to regard 'having children' as a question of pro's and con's, the great turning point has come.

My mum's always on at me to have children and blames 'that stupid stage thing you do' for me not already having a family.

People come up to me... concerned... that I'll reproduce.

I'm convinced my mother only had sex eight times.

If men were in charge of carrying and birthing our babies, we'd have a lot fewer people on Earth, because we'd only do it once- I can promise you that!

We like to think that our parents made a decision to bring us into the world.

I have never planned to have babies by a certain age.

My mum has never wanted me to have children. She thinks I would be destroying my life, even now.

People make me feel like I have a problem because I haven't had a kid yet.

Some women just skip having babies or adopt because they don't want to get fat or they haven't put in the time to find a partner. It's great to adopt, but a lot of adoptions are motivated by vanity and laziness.