Zoe Wanamaker Quotes

People who have children, by and large, want children. People who don't want children are people who, by and large, don't want to have children. And why would you expect one set to be happier than another?

For me, just being how old I am, I know I don't want to be a single mom. I really would rather make it a two-person job. But I've also come to terms with not being a mother at all. I'm actually really good with either direction that my life can take as being a valid experience.

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.

I want children, but at the moment the liberty I have now finally, has a far too high value.

We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

I made the choice not to have children, so I can spend my days just writing; there are no kids demanding my time.

I have chosen not to have children.

I never wanted the business to dictate my life. I'm sure I've sacrificed and missed out on a lot of stuff, but I don't know what that stuff is, so I just raised kids, and I wanted to be around for that.

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

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 would love to have a child. It would be great for me and such a positive message for all the girls out there who don't want to rush their life or their life has taken different a direction, like me who's put their career first.

I don't regret anything I've ever done; as long as I enjoyed it at the time

Most women I've ever met either already have or at some point want kids, but there are still significant numbers who don't, or at least don't right now. But those variations are beside the point - the real point is that among all those women, having or wanting kids or not, I never met a single one who didn't want the choice.

I've been lucky enough to be able to choose exactly where I want to live.

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

I have no regrets in life, and you know what? If I could, I'd go back and do it all again.

Not all women want to have 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.

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

It's obvious that getting married and having children is a matter of personal freedom.

I think it's quite a big decision for women to have children. In our time, I don't think we thought so much about it. We just went and had them and of course, life is not fun-filled and not complete if you don't have them. It's a wonderful thing when you think about it.

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.

I have no regrets. I can't think of a regret.

I think that so many people who have children seem to want other people to have children in order to make their choice feel more essential, more inevitable, and just more right.

There is a strong view in Nigeria, as in many other cultures, that a marriage is not complete without children. I don't agree; I'm wary of the idea that people have to have some particular functionality in order to be full members of society.