Julie Taymor Quotes

It's great that Time is moving in the direction of validating those who, by choice or circumstance, will never be parents. But the point is not simply that society should stop judging those of us who don't have children. It's that society actually needs us. Children need us.

Not having children makes less work-but it makes a quiet house.

Having no children had been a kind of choice up to the moment when, from a choice, it became a sadness.

We never had any children," he said ruefully. "Our work was our 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.

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

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.

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

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

I was a normal child. Which is to say, I was selfish and I was not entirely convinced of the existence of things that were not me, and I was certain, rock-solid, unshakeably certain, that I was the most important thing in creation. There was nothing that was more important to me than I was.

I am so happy that I didn't have children. Well, you know, because I've had freedom.

Given the reality of unintended parenthood and parental unhappiness, one would think that women and men who make the decision not to have children - who are deliberate and thoughtful about the choice to bring another person into the world - would be seen as less selfish than those who unthinkingly have children. Yet the stigma remains.

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.

I don't want to speak for all people who don't have children, but maybe there's a discomfort with kids and the amount of attention they demand, by just being the age that they are.

For some reason, I never felt the need to have kids. My wife feels the same. We don't feel a void. I don't think they would give my life meaning. I do think of the books as my children, though. Whatever is inside of me, I put into my books.

People think that you are a nasty, selfish person if you don't want to have children.

I always remind myself that [ Jean-Paul] Sartre and [Simone] de Beauvoir didn't have children. And when you don't have children, it might be easier to believe that the child doesn't come with something.

We both liked children; we just didn't want any ourselves. There were children everywhere, and we saw no reason to start our own brand. Young couples plunge into parenthood and about half the time they end up with some ghastly problem on their hands. We thought we'd leave that to others.

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

I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.

Nothing makes a man so selfish as work.

I get to do for a living what I did as a child for fun, and that's pretty cool.