Sarah Mlynowski Quotes

If you can wiggle your toes with the mere flicker of an intention, why can't you reset your biological clock?

Do men have a biological clock? I feel like I do. Something is definitely ticking!

It was morning by the clock but deepest nighttime in his body.

Been thinking about having a baby. But if I want to do it, I'd have to do it soon 'cause it's getting near closing time. The clock is ticking. My gynecologist said, if I wanted to have a baby, I would have to do it - the latest - by the ended of this show.

Time waits for no ovary.

I just read that Time magazine cover story with all this information about how you have to have your kids by the time you're 12 or it's all over. Please.

My thing about having another child was, time's-a-wasting!

I don't see any reason why I couldn't have a child when I'm 40.

Your forties is not the time to be thinking about getting pregnant.

I would love a family. I'm at the age where the wish for a child gets stronger. But who knows.

Right now I'm still only 25 and I don't think the maternal bug has hit me yet.

I was happy to carry on without children because I was completely immersed in my work and my career. I only heard the clock ticking in my late 30s, and when my mother Marion died the year I turned 40 it hit me with such a force that we ended up having IVF, which turned out to be unsuccessful.

A friend of mine told me she's going to freeze her eggs, and I thought, 'Well, I also don't want to be a 55-year-old first time mother,' so you kind of just have to go with what happens.

I've had other friends who had such a burning desire to have children: they have this biological ticking clock. I don't know what happened to mine. Nobody ever wound it up.

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

The same biological clock ticks away in humans and fruit flies, which underscores the importance of circadian timing to life on this planet.

The biological clock and the career clock are in total conflict with each other.

All of us have an 'inner clock,' a certain pace at which we function most comfortably and effectively.

As I got older, I discovered that nothing within me cried out for a baby. My womb did not seem to have come equipped with that famously ticking clock. Unlike so many of my friends, I did not ache with longing whenever I saw an infant. (Though I did ache with longing, it is true, whenever I saw a good used-book shop)

I'd never buy my girl a watch... she's already got a clock over the stove.

I feel like my body doesn't judge the hours, you know? It doesn't care if it's daytime or nighttime.

Downloading a Tamagotchi egg onto my phone is possibly the loudest my biological clock has ever ticked.

A friend asked her doctor if a woman should have children after thirty-five. I said, "Thirty-five children is enough for any woman.

I never waited 27 years, because 27 years ago I was just born. My parents never told me, 'If you don't win Roland Garros we take you to the orphanage.

There does seem to be some evidence that as people get older, they procrastinate less, perhaps because they feel the pressure of time more.