Ellie Taylor Quotes

I didn't have children, but I never wanted children.

The absence of doll babies in my toy chest didn't seriously influence my later decision not to become a mother; rather, I disdained Hasbro's Baby Alive wetting doll because I was already the kind of girl who would grow up to be childless by choice.

I am sorry if I am going to disappoint women who feel that becoming a mother completes you. I don't feel I am any less of a woman for not having a child.

I'm done with the whole idea of having my own children. It doesn't seem like any fun.

People who choose not to have kids do so because they respect the job of parenting so much that they know not to take it on if they know it's not something that they're up for, and I don't know what to be a bigger tribute to parenting than that.

People are constantly asking Portia and me if we are going to have children. We thought about it. We love to be around children after they've been fed and bathed. But we ultimately decided that we don't want children of our own. There is far too much glass in our house.

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.

I have chosen not to have children.

Not all women want to have children.

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.

But I'd made up my mind early on in life that I never wanted to be a mother.

There are loads of women that don't want children. What does it matter? I'm still a woman.

I've never regretted not having kids.

To not want children or not be considerate of them is a very unwomanly thing to be, from a certain point of view.

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

I definitely don't want to have kids ... I don't think I'd be a great mother. I'm a great aunt or friend of a mother ... I don't want to spend that kind of time. I don't want to have a kid and have it raised by a nanny. I don't have time to raise a child.

After I had my baby, I reprioritized my life in general. I really wanted to play characters that gave me a different kind of fulfillment. That is a difficult thing to find, especially as an actress.

If it were said that I didn't fulfil my potential as a mother and wife, I'd be heartbroken. But if it were said that I hadn't fulfilled my potential as an actress, I would understand the reasons why.

I do feel at a loss for not having a child of my own at times, very much so.

I didn't have children because I was passionate about having my career.

I never planned on having children, that's never been a desire of mine.

I think a lot of women feel pressure to have kids, especially when you get engaged. And for me, I'm like, I don't want that pressure on myself.

I wanted to talk to a lot of women about their experiences along the path to motherhood - or along the path to not being a mother.

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?

Now I find my happiness in my music, what I'm doing in the ring, and being a mom. No one thing controls my happiness.