Erica Jong Quotes

I think that women are afraid to say they don't want children because they're going to get shunned.

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

The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights describes the family as the natural and fundamental unit of society. It follows that any choice and decision with regard to the size of the family must irrevocably rest with the family itself, and cannot be made by anyone else.

Not everyone has to have children. If everyone had two or three, we'd run out of room.

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.

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

No government should dictate whether or when we should have children….Reproductive freedom is a basic human right.

I have chosen not to have children.

Shouldn't we be against procreation at this point in time? With overpopulation and the strain on the resources on this planet? Shouldn't we reward people who don't spawn?

Children are the last thing I want. I hate all children. For other people, it's fine, but not for me. I was born not to be a family person.

If some individuals contribute to general social deterioration by overproducing children, and if the need is compelling, they can be required by law to exercise reproductive responsibility — just as they can be required to exercise responsibility in their resource-consumption patterns — providing they are not denied equal protection

I think women are afraid to say that they don't want children because they're going to get shunned. But I think that's changing too now. I have more girlfriends who don't have kids than those that do. And honestly? We don't need any more kids. We have plenty of people on this planet.

We're too many people; that's why we have global warming...on a voluntary basis, everybody in the world's got to pledge to themselves that one child is it.

Anyone who opposes methods to control the birth rate, is automatically voting in favour having the death rate go up.

I support population control. I think USA should do the same.

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

Frankly, I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don't want to have too many of.

Every woman who chooses - joyfully, thoughtfully, calmly, of their own free will and desire - not to have a child does womankind a massive favour in the long term.

We want better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.

The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.

I don't want children. Why should I let some strange little monster into my life to destroy what to me is a perfect set-up?

Unless we do things in this country to slow down our population, slow down our birth control, provide better water for people, provide power for people, we're gonna find out that the next wars are not going to be fought over diamonds, gold and political things.

Family planning is the only exit point of the land problem. No other solution is possible.

We must encourage those who earn less than $200 per month and cannot afford to nurture and educate many children never to have more than two... We will regret the time lost if we do not now take the first tentative steps towards correcting a trend which can leave our society with a large number of the physically, intellectually and culturally anemic.