Meghan Daum Quotes

I know I'm missing something, but those who have children are missing what I get to do. And frankly, I'm probably missing more of what I don't want than what I do. Some may call me selfish or narcissistic, but I don't want to spend my time going to PTA meetings. The only way I could have children and do the work I do is to have a househusband - and I'm not attracted to a househusband. I'd rather affect children with the work I do.

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

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.

Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?

It was quite instant that he wanted Harry's approval. Did you notice that? And the children sort of rescued him this time. It's a great turnabout. That's what happens as your children get older. They do things for you, and it's quite shocking when they do.

We're good at taking care of little kids, and spend a lot of energy teaching them things like how to read. But when kids get as tall as their parents and can look them in the eyes, we tend to drop the ball - at a time they most need a loving consistent community of adults, be it parents, aunts, uncles, or others.

Good mothers and good fathers and good families don't always have great children.

It's been great having my little girl. It's like having a workout 24 hours a day. I don't need to go to the gym! I'm chasing after my daughter everywhere she goes.

I love being a mum. Sophia is so funny and has a great personality.

The children of great authors do not, as a rule, become writers.

One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child's name and how old he or she is.

As I get older and I see all my friends starting to have children, I see them have different reactions to the material that was probably not of great interest to them when they were younger, because they're re-experiencing it through their kids.

I'm a great lover of children. I never thought that one day I'd actually be a father, but I'm very pleased that I changed my mind. Children are extremely important. They are the future of the world.

I basically don't do that well with children, although my sister says I'm a great aunt.

From a child's point of view, there is rarely a great time for parents to separate, even if there has been a lot of commotion and fighting.

I am single and without children. I'm actually one of those people who's just never had a great desire to have kids.

In order to raise children with equality, we must take them away from families and communally raise them.

No government should ever be big enough to substitute for the family.

I certainly know women who had children, quit their jobs, and still have full-time nannies. That's who these women are: Even to the detriment of their own relationship with their kids, they want to appear perfect Martha Stewart moms.

In my neighborhood growing up, 8, 10,12 kids were the norm. Those stay-at-home moms would handle so much physically and emotionally. Even in my early teens, I could tell those ladies were something.

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.

Like some people they're into nannies and the whole social life and they don't spend time with their kids. I'm always with my kids.

It takes a village to raise a child; that's how I basically balance it. It's twenty four hours in a day.

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

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