Bill McKibben Quotes

When are you ever settled enough to have kids?

There is never a right or wrong time to have kids; it happens for whatever reason, but you can have this paranoia: 'will I be able to do this, I'm not sure if I'm ready to have kids?'

I don't think there's ever a right time to have kids. I'm actually pretty glad it's happened quite young.

I think that, as with marriage, you just know when it's time to have kids.

I kind of go back and forth about marriage and kids. I feel like, if it's an organic way for me and the right time in my life, then, yeah.

Later in life there should not be any regrets. Sometimes you have children too early and regret it, 'If I wouldn't have, my career would have been different' and sometimes when you don't have, you miss that opportunity.

One has to do everything at the right time. That includes motherhood.

It's not that I don't have kids for some personal reason outside of, I just haven't had kids. And I haven't met someone who wanted to, as far as I know. And perhaps I'm attracted to women who aren't ready to make that commitment just yet.

I always wanted to be a father and thought it would be great, but it just took the right woman and the right time to make it all happen.

Motherhood is the only thing in my life that I've really known for sure is something I wanted to do.

I definitely want to be a mum. Lots of my friends are having babies, but I don't know quite when to do it. My mum says, 'There's never a right time; you've just got to get on with it'.

Obviously, nobody chooses not to have kids because they'd rather sleep in late. It's a very visceral decision, and it's a complicated decision.

Thank God I didn't have my children until I was a little bit older.

Maybe I see myself with kids, given the right place and right moment, with the right person.

When you have kids, it limits you. That was a choice I made.

I don't think a baby is something that you should do because other people are doing it.

I have chosen not to have children.

I made a choice in life and got pregnant and had a child, and I want to put my child first.

But I'd made up my mind early on in life that I never wanted to be a mother.

I think it's quite a big decision for women to have children. In our time, I don't think we thought so much about it. We just went and had them and of course, life is not fun-filled and not complete if you don't have them. It's a wonderful thing when you think about it.

When you have children is the most important choice affecting your life.

There is a right time for everything. There was a time when I wanted to settle down and have a family. I wanted to give time to my kids. I had worked for nearly 19 years when I got married.

It's a difficult world, and you shouldn't have kids unless you really want them.

I wasn't going to shy away from getting married when I did and having a baby young and starting a family, even with the job that I chose.

I wish I'd a got married sooner. I wish I'd a had kids sooner. I wish I'd a figured all that out sooner.