Natsuo Kirino Quotes

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

Not everybody has to be a parent. In fact, in an overpopulated world where our resources are shrinking, it would be wonderful if people who didn't want children felt free to say so. In the 1970s, there was more tolerance for the idea that not everybody needs to be a biological parent.

People always tell me I'm going to regret not having kids. But what if I have one and then I regret having it? Has anyone thought of that option?

I don't have children, and I don't want children.

I have chosen not 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.

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

I made the conscious decision to not have kids, and I didn't want to be married.

I still can’t say whether I ever want children….I can only say how I feel now--grateful to be on my own. I also know that I won’t go forth and have children just in case I might regret missing it later in life; I don’t think this is a strong enough motivation to bring more babies onto the earth.

As I've gotten older, I've felt I have more authority on that subject. I think the conversation needs to be reframed. What I hate - a lot of conversations about choosing not to have children tend to be couched in these superficial terms, or kind of glib, "I'd rather have a Porsche" or "I forgot to have kids." No you didn't.

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

I always knew I didn't want kids, and I didn't want to get married.

I definitely don't have any desire to have children.

By the time I entered college, I had decided not to have children, a decision that was never regretted. Accordingly, I was careful to court only girls who wanted to have professional careers.

I made a conscious decision that I was not going to have children. I didn't want others raising them, and looking after them myself would get in the way of being a musician and writer.

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.

No, I've never wanted kids. But I do read about parenting a lot.

Other people can have all the children they want. Some people ask for no-smoking sections. I ask for no children.

A woman who doesn't want to have kids is sort of a mystery to people. That's a question they're asked the minute they get married, it's a question they're asked constantly, 'Don't you want to have kids?' And I feel like that's completely unfair.

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?

I don't ever want to have kids of my own. But I do want a lot of kids.

Children are the last thing I want. I hate all children. For other people, it's fine, but not for me. I was born not to be a family person.

So all my friends have kids now... which I think is rude.