Seanan McGuire Quotes

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

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

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

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

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.

I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.

I like kids, but I don't expect to have any of my own. I'm 40 years old and spend most of my time working. I'd be a terrible mother.

I don't like anything with too much dependency. Children are very dependent, which is probably why we never had them.

I'm completely happy not having children. I mean, everybody does not have to live in the same way. And as somebody said, "Everybody with a womb doesn't have to have a child any more than everybody with vocal cords has to be an opera singer."

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.

I realized relatively early on that I had no desire to be a mother whatsoever. I actually love children, but specifically other people's.

I believe in living life the way that you want to live it every day, and if you do that, you don't really need to have New Year's resolutions.

I feel lucky that I had my children late. Not that I would advise it in any shape or form. But I know friends who had children when they were young, struggled with feeling trapped. I can honestly say I've never once resented the fact that I couldn't go out because of my kids.

There was no active, conscious decision-making point, just a gradual realization over time that I'm very happy minus children and marriage.

I don't think people should do things because you know, 'I am turning this age, I must go have a husband.' If you find somebody and it works out then have kids, it's very nice. But if you don't, you don't.

To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom.

I don't have any regrets about not having had children. What's the point? It's just something else to beat yourself up over.

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 didn't wake up one day and think, 'I'm not going to have children.' My mother was a housewife and brought up three children, so I just thought it would happen.

I think I became more productive through not having children. I never really had the desire to have them. My husband didn't want them either, so it worked out well.

My thirties merged into my forties, and I sort of gradually realised that I don't really want children. Now I'm glad I don't have them. Part of that is because I have my books.

I never do what anyone else is doing. I could walk away from music and become a farmer or do some crochet. The worst thing in life for me is to do something I'm not happy doing.

I am glad that I do not have any children.

I don't have any kids of my own.

Even before I knew I was gay, I knew I didn't want to have a child. I knew I didn't want to have one. I never want to have to release it from me. Listen, I love babies. I love children. And I melt when I'm around them. I also love my freedom and I love that I can sleep at night.