Lisa Stansfield Quotes

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

I wasn't mentally prepared to take care of them, I was focused on my career. And then when I got to be in my 40s and I thought about having kids, I wasn't able to have kids naturally. I don't regret it.

A friend of mine told me she's going to freeze her eggs, and I thought, 'Well, I also don't want to be a 55-year-old first time mother,' so you kind of just have to go with what happens.

I've had other friends who had such a burning desire to have children: they have this biological ticking clock. I don't know what happened to mine. Nobody ever wound it up.

As I got older, I discovered that nothing within me cried out for a baby. My womb did not seem to have come equipped with that famously ticking clock. Unlike so many of my friends, I did not ache with longing whenever I saw an infant. (Though I did ache with longing, it is true, whenever I saw a good used-book shop)

I think I would be very sad if I wasn't able to have a baby.

I tried immediately to have a baby because I was so afraid not to have a baby in my life.

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.

I wanted very badly to be a mum. I'm a very maternal person. But at the point that I met Emilio I was focusing on a career. I never would have thought that I would get married at 21 and much less be a mum by 23.

Thinking about women who can't have their own baby, even the first baby, I'm really lucky.

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

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

I now need to take a very aggressive approach to having a baby.

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

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.

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.

We decided to try in vitro, because both Peter and I felt we couldn't handle another failure. When I miscarried after that, we had to come to terms with the possibility that this wasn't meant to be.

I'd do anything to have more kids. But that's probably not gonna happen now.

I remember Tom Stoppard saying to me when I came out, 'I feel so sorry for you, because you'll never have children.' These days I would say, 'Well, why not, Tom?'

I really thought I couldn't be a mum. We had tried several times with IVF,, and it hadn't worked and we'd given up in a way. We both thought, 'You know what, that's that. It's not going to happen - let's move on.'

I never thought I was going to have children. I just thought after 45, that was it.

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.

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

Your forties is not the time to be thinking about getting pregnant.