Sue Perkins Quotes

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

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.

Do men have a biological clock? I feel like I do. Something is definitely ticking!

If you want to become a mother, you can. I promise. It may not happen the way you think, but it's possible. It just takes a combination of a little planning and a lot of living your life.

Getting pregnant wasn't easy, and I found that devastating. I really beat myself up for waiting so long when I'd always wanted children and family had been the basis of my happiness my whole life.

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

Unfortunately, with fertility, time is not your friend. People are waiting longer to get married and longer to have kids, and so many more people are experiencing fertility issues. But no one ever talks about it.

My thing about having another child was, time's-a-wasting!

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

For lots of reasons, including working crazy hours and having a job that required significant travel, I did not start trying to have a baby until I was in my late 30s. My experience is hardly unique. I am one of countless women who almost waited too long without realizing it.

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.

How many of those forty-something celebrities, staring out from the covers of magazines with their beautiful babies, have conceived naturally, or without assistance? Not as many as you might think I would wager - yet for so many women they act as fertility beacons, a symbol of hope in a landscape of diminishing fertility.

So many people have so much trouble having kids.

Every time I went to the doctor when I was in my twenties, he repeated the same thing to me: don't wait too long to have children.

There is also an epidemic of infertility in this country. There are more women who have put off child-bearing in favor of their professional lives. For them, the only way they are going to have a family is to adopt from China.

We would love to have other children. It hasn't happened. We haven't been lucky enough.

A lot of times people say, 'As soon as you relax you'll have a kid.'

At one point in my career, while still hosting 'The Arsenio Hall Show,' I was told by my doctor that it might not be physically possible for me to have children.

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

I'll start with one healthy kid, but I'd like to have a few naturally and adopt.

I'd adopt. And I think that if I'm really supposed to have kids, it will happen, if that's God's plan for me.

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.

They tried to discredit me. I used to tell them, There's many wonderful people out there who can't have children, who would want to have these children.

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

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