As a woman of a certain age - and really, ever since I hit puberty and my baby-making parts were suddenly subject to public debate - I've been told over and over again that I will 'change my mind' about not wanting kids.
I am no mother, and I won't be one.
I know plenty of people who don't have children. And I also get a lot of people who say, 'Thank you for speaking out; my family don't understand why I don't want kids.'
Not all women want to have children.
I have chosen not to have children.
I didn't have children, but I never wanted children.
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.
There are loads of women that don't want children. What does it matter? I'm still a woman.
I met older actresses who never married, never had children. That's not for me.
Stop baby shaming people to make us feel like there's something wrong with us if we don't want children.
I was that girl that was like, 'I don't want kids. I don't need kids.'
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.
