Maxine Peake Quotes

A woman who doesn't want to have kids is sort of a mystery to people. That's a question they're asked the minute they get married, it's a question they're asked constantly, 'Don't you want to have kids?' And I feel like that's completely unfair.

Is it a recent occurrence that women have tried to control when and if they reproduced? Absolutely not. By 2000 B.C., there was worldwide use of herbal potions to prevent pregnancy. Condoms were made from animal bladders.

Just as the Supreme Court has said that women have the right to choose whether or not to be parents, men should also have that right.

The so-called right to reproduce is not an unlimited right.

We recognized ‘the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion into matters so fundamentally affecting a person as the decision whether to bear or beget a child.’ That right necessarily includes the right of a woman to decide whether or not to terminate her pregnancy.

Reproductive choice is a fundamental human right and we can never take it for granted. On this issue, you're either with us or against us.

In America, access to birth control is controlled by those who never use it.

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

Other people can have all the children they want. Some people ask for no-smoking sections. I ask for no 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.

Bizarrely, I've been called selfish for not having children. Surely it's more selfish to have a child when you don't really want a child?

There is a strong view in Nigeria, as in many other cultures, that a marriage is not complete without children. I don't agree; I'm wary of the idea that people have to have some particular functionality in order to be full members of society.

When I have children, it will be my choice, and I won't feel under any pressure.

People come up to me... concerned... that I'll reproduce.

My wife and I don't have kids and people are down on us about it. But we're just not wired that way, so don't tell me I have to.

My mum's always on at me to have children and blames 'that stupid stage thing you do' for me not already having a family.

I have born-again Christians in my family, and they are completely against abortion... Everybody's got to stop being afraid of it real soon. Who's going to do it if a woman's network doesn't? People are going to be dying.

Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966.

My mum has never wanted me to have children. She thinks I would be destroying my life, even now.

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.

There is nothing more fundamental than the idea that the government does not have a right to decide when and whether we have children.

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.

Margaret Sanger didn't just introduce the idea of birth control into our culture at large, she freed women from indenture to their bodies.

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?

Thou shalt not give birth reluctantly.