Robert Smith Quotes

Bizarrely, I've been called selfish for not having children. Surely it's more selfish to have a child when you don't really want a child?

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

The urge that most people feel to have kids is the exact same as the urge that I have to not have kids. I do not want to raise a child.

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

I never planned on having children, that's never been a desire of mine.

Given the reality of unintended parenthood and parental unhappiness, one would think that women and men who make the decision not to have children - who are deliberate and thoughtful about the choice to bring another person into the world - would be seen as less selfish than those who unthinkingly have children. Yet the stigma remains.

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

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 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.

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.

People always tell me I'm going to regret not having kids. But what if I have one and then I regret having it? Has anyone thought of that option?

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.

I remember back in the '90s, I used to feel criticized by women for not having children. Like there must be something wrong with me.

Other people can have all the children they want. Some people ask for no-smoking sections. I ask for no children.

The absence of doll babies in my toy chest didn't seriously influence my later decision not to become a mother; rather, I disdained Hasbro's Baby Alive wetting doll because I was already the kind of girl who would grow up to be childless by choice.

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.

I have my animals, we have the greatest life and I don't see us having children - never say never - but I really don't see it.

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

I've never regretted not having kids.

I'm not only uninterested in having children. I am opposed to having children. Having a purebred human baby is like having a purebred dog; it is nothing but vanity, human vanity.

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 decided then and there I was never going to have kids.

Taking care of myself is central to my personality. I'm pathologically independent. There's no doubt that's one reason I never had children.

I have chosen not to have children.