Childless Lifestyle Quotes

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

I remember my wife and I used to get on plane and see everybody else with their babies. They'd be putting strollers and car seats up above, and we'd think: Oh, please Lord, don't make us go through that.

I'd definitely have a dog over a child.

I don't necessarily want kids. A lot of our friends are having children and I don't know if it's for me. I haven't come down hardcore on either side of the argument. I think when people come from a stable family having children becomes a celebration and I'm not sure it would be that way for me.

I know I'm missing something, but those who have children are missing what I get to do. And frankly, I'm probably missing more of what I don't want than what I do. Some may call me selfish or narcissistic, but I don't want to spend my time going to PTA meetings. The only way I could have children and do the work I do is to have a househusband - and I'm not attracted to a househusband. I'd rather affect children with the work I do.

Having no children had been a kind of choice up to the moment when, from a choice, it became a sadness.

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.

Not having children makes less work-but it makes a quiet house.

I really have always wanted to be a parent, and when I hit 36 and had just ended a relationship, I remember thinking how much I still wanted it. But I thought I'd adopt.

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

I like to go to work, and also, I don't have any kids. I don't have any hobbies. I don't like to travel. So going to work is kind of it.

My kitchen is my baby. I don't have kids, so cooking is sort of like my child. Renovating my kitchen has allowed me to channel my creativity the way parents work on a nursery. The centerpiece is my vintage 1950s Wedgewood stove.

I've never wanted a baby. I've always wanted a cat.

I didn't have children because I was passionate about having my career.

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.

When we grow up," she said, "we'll have amazing families. Our dens will be better than this. Your kids and my kids will play together in a humongous room with every kind of toy and game." "Except I won't have kids," Dan said. "I'll come over myself and play.

Not having children isn't something I regret. I acknowledge that some things have been easier for me than they would have been for others.

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

It's great that Time is moving in the direction of validating those who, by choice or circumstance, will never be parents. But the point is not simply that society should stop judging those of us who don't have children. It's that society actually needs us. Children need us.

I feel it in my bones that if I had a kid, I would not either continue to write or have written the book I have done. So it's just me and the dog. I've always gotten along better with animals than I have with children, anyway.

I was that girl that was like, 'I don't want kids. I don't need kids.'