Meg Cabot Quotes

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.

I would rather sit next to a transgender person and discuss why every single one I've met smells like a bar in the daytime than listen to people tell my why I want to have children and that I just don't know it yet. I do know, because I'm me and my feelings are the ones in my head. I don't want to have kids, and it's not a device to get attention or have conversations about it. I simply find children incredibly immature and, more often than not, dumb.

Society does not need more children; but it does need more loved children. Quite literally, we cannot afford unloved children - but we pay heavily for them every day. There should not be the slightest communal concern when a woman elects to destroy the life of her thousandth-of-an-ounce embryo. But all society should rise up in alarm when it hears that a baby that is not wanted is about to be born.

I don't want to speak for all people who don't have children, but maybe there's a discomfort with kids and the amount of attention they demand, by just being the age that they are.

I regret not having more children. I would have loved to have had a bigger family.

Never having children is a huge regret of mine.

I think I became more productive through not having children. I never really had the desire to have them. My husband didn't want them either, so it worked out well.

When we had been married five years, we had six children. What, in God's name, was wrong with me?

I'm done with the whole idea of having my own children. It doesn't seem like any fun.

I am glad that I do not have any children.

I always thought I'd adopt - I have a dog but no children.

I was never the girl who yearned for children. I pretended to be interested in other people's kids, but that was obviously just an act.

I want a baby and I want a family, for sure.

I don't have any kids of my own.

Absolutely. It's something I'd eventually love. In the meantime, I just borrow all my friends' kids. It's seriously the best birth control in the world. I'm so tired afterward, I'm like, Okay, maybe in another two years.

I think it's nice to have children. I didn't have many, and while I don't sit around regretting it, I maybe would have liked a couple more. But it wasn't meant to be, and I didn't want it badly enough.

I like kids, but I don't expect to have any of my own. I'm 40 years old and spend most of my time working. I'd be a terrible mother.

I am not maternal at all. I don't have any kids.

I have chosen not to have children.

I think a lot of women feel pressure to have kids, especially when you get engaged. And for me, I'm like, I don't want that pressure on myself.

I think that so many people who have children seem to want other people to have children in order to make their choice feel more essential, more inevitable, and just more right.

I didn't have any children of my own.

When it comes to having children or not having children, I don't think we realise how many women have to deal with things quietly.

I don't ever want to have kids of my own. But I do want a lot of 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.