Carmen Busquets Quotes

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 won't apologize for choosing my career over kids.

A woman who doesn't want to have kids is sort of a mystery to people. That's a question they're asked the minute they get married, it's a question they're asked constantly, 'Don't you want to have kids?' And I feel like that's completely unfair.

I made the conscious decision to not have kids, and I didn't want to be married.

I always knew I didn't want kids, and I didn't want to get married.

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

My wife and I don't have kids and people are down on us about it. But we're just not wired that way, so don't tell me I have to.

I definitely don't have any desire to have children.

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.

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 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.

My mum has never wanted me to have children. She thinks I would be destroying my life, even now.

I just decided that I would not put my professional life on hold to raise children. I know that sounds selfish to a lot of people and I don't know if what I'm doing is the right thing. But that's the way I'm doing it.

People who choose not to have kids do so because they respect the job of parenting so much that they know not to take it on if they know it's not something that they're up for, and I don't know what to be a bigger tribute to parenting than that.

I never thought about settling down. I was obsessed with my career - I was blinkered. I finally met a woman who was worthy of me. Then we settled down and had many children.

People are constantly asking Portia and me if we are going to have children. We thought about it. We love to be around children after they've been fed and bathed. But we ultimately decided that we don't want children of our own. There is far too much glass in our house.

A lot of relationships have ended for me in my 20s, because I knew that eventually those people would wanna settle down and have kids.

I know plenty of people who don't have children. And I also get a lot of people who say, 'Thank you for speaking out; my family don't understand why I don't want kids.'

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.

No, I've never wanted kids. But I do read about parenting a lot.

I don't have children, and I don't want children.

I never wanted children. If I'd been deeply in love with a man and he'd wanted children, it would have been difficult.

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

I made the choice not to have children, so I can spend my days just writing; there are no kids demanding my time.

Once we decided not to get pregnant, I snapped back into work mode, and now I have just been really enjoying my career.