I've never regretted not having children. My mindset in that regard has been constant. I objected to being born, and I refuse to impose life on someone else.
We want better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.
Having children is a huge responsibility, and I just don't want to hand them off to a nanny or my mom to take care of them.
A lot of times, people say, 'My work didn't suffer with family.' I would go a step further: My career only flourished upon having children. It got better.
Appallingly, I hadn't thought about it one jot. I never daydreamed as a little girl of getting married and having children. I was as surprised to discover I was getting married as I was to discover I was up the duff.
It's very easy to keep putting off having a family if you enjoy your job, but you just have to get on with life.
After having children, life becomes about living beyond yourself; about being bigger and better.
I'm sorry, it's true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We're born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It's been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much - if at all.
Having children, they're not your property. They need to figure out their own views. I think my daughters have a pretty healthy self-awareness, but I can't speak on their behalf.
The leading cause of death for girls 15 to 19 worldwide is not accident or violence or disease; it is complications from pregnancy. Girls under 15 are up to five times as likely to die while having children than are women in their 20s, and their babies are more likely to die as well.
The one thing I missed was never having children. It just wasn't in the cards, I guess.
It's hard, but what's the point of having children unless you're there to raise them, I reckon.
I wasn't interested in having children of my own. I know what would have happened - I'd have been left at home to look after the kids, and my career would have been over while my husband travelled the world.
No one I know is actually so rude as to tell me I've become duller since having children. But I'm sure they think it.
We have three cats. It's like having children, but there is no tuition involved.
Having children is fab. They keep me young and make me get up in the morning.
I don't mind being a grandfather; I've been a mother for so many years. You just can't believe what it's like being a father. Especially when you come out of the chaos of the road to getting married and having children.
Getting married and having children is an evolution process, a live social experiment no one is documenting.
I was looking at myself, and acknowledged that I wasn't in love at all with him [husband]. I was in love with having children.
Everything I thought I'd hate about having children - the crying, the screaming - nothing fazes me. I love it all, and it's relaxed me.
Many believe children complete a marriage, and I like kids, too.
Having children with someone is the real bond.
Women today have choices and demand choices, choices to have kids or not and the reproductive technology thereto. And it is a fact [that] most women continue to chose to have children.
I've seen mothers and children really being vulnerable in the refugee camps; it's supposed to be temporary, but they end up having children who have grown up in refugee camps.
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.
