Carol Leifer Quotes

You either have a baby, want a baby, or don't want a baby, but you don't nothing a baby if you're in your 30s or 40s.

It seems like, to me, somewhere between 30 and 35 is a really, really good time to turn your eggs into babies.

I think it's hard, the fact that there's a certain age that we can't have kids anymore.

I'm a late bloomer. Being a late bloomer is a problem when you decide at 40 you want to have children.

I never went through a biological clock experience. I never even heard it ticking.

My mom told me, 'Make sure you do everything you want to do before you have kids.' So that's what I was doing. But biologically, the body is just like, 'Well, you should have done it.'

I'd long wanted to write about that moment when a woman steps off the career track to have her first child. For me, that was a scary time.

I just read that Time magazine cover story with all this information about how you have to have your kids by the time you're 12 or it's all over. Please.

I didn't want to be one of those women who wake up at 63 years old and realize they've missed the window of opportunity for marriage and children.

Women right now kind of have this idea of success - putting your career first and then having kids. On one side, it's perfect and it's a great plan, but on the other side, they don't explain to you that after age 35, you start losing eggs.

Right now I'm still only 25 and I don't think the maternal bug has hit me yet.

I was happy to carry on without children because I was completely immersed in my work and my career. I only heard the clock ticking in my late 30s, and when my mother Marion died the year I turned 40 it hit me with such a force that we ended up having IVF, which turned out to be unsuccessful.

I wasn't a person who was longing forever to have a baby; the desire came up suddenly.

I'm not going to have a baby until I'm around 30-something.

I am no mother, and I won't be one.

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

When you're in your mid-thirties, the cult of people who have children around you all want you in their cult, and they constantly ask you, 'So when are you going to have a baby?'

Wendy and I both wanted kids, but since we were pushing 40, the clock was ticking.

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

I feel being an actress is probably not half as difficult as being a mother, and I do not know when I will be ready for that kind of a decision.

Every woman who chooses - joyfully, thoughtfully, calmly, of their own free will and desire - not to have a child does womankind a massive favour in the long term.

I am glad that I do not have any children.

I was never the girl who yearned for children. I pretended to be interested in other people's kids, but that was obviously just an act.

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'm a childless woman, yet I felt no maternal urges whatsoever. The prospect of years of broken nights and nappy changes holds no appeal for me.