Beth Ostrosky Stern Quotes

I'd definitely have a dog over a child.

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.

People gave me such a bad time about wanting a baby. I didn't want a baby, and I still don't. I wanted a dog.

I always had cats and animals, so children were never really in my thoughts.

I hope to have a house filled with animals more than I ever hope to have a child of my own.

There are a lot of women who live with pot-bellied pigs.

The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to movies and theme parks.

Fatherhood, both times for me, was a choice.

I think if I'm 40 and I don't have any kids and I'm not married, I would have a baby artificially inseminated. I would feel like Mary - like Jesus is my baby.

I never have kids in movies or in TV shows.

I don't hate children. My wife and I just didn't think we would be good parents, and also by the time we got married in 1968, we were pretty nose-down toward what we wanted to do, and having a child was going to be an excuse to fail.

Most Americans, like most Japanese, view their dogs, cats, and other animal companions as family members, and rightly so.

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.

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?

I don't think that everybody in the planet should have a child. I've never had the desire I should have a kid.

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

I think I'd be a really good dad. So perhaps I'm doing society a disservice by not having as many kids as possible.

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.

As long as I can remember, I've always had pets. Something about the connection you share with this entirely different species just blows my mind.

I have several dogs and several cats who aren't really mine. In fact, they think that I am theirs. I'd like to have some goats and chickens, but I travel around too much.

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

Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.

We have a couple of dogs, but I wouldn't describe myself as an animal person.

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?