Quotes About Being Childless

#1. Tevis being childless meant you felt a little sorry for her, and a bit jealous. Probably the same way she felt about you.

Monica Ali

#2. All too often, those of us who choose to remain childless are accused of being somehow unwomanly or unnatural or selfish, but history teaches us that there have always been women who went through life without having babies.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#3. If Heaven and Earth are unable to persist, how could man?

Laozi

#4. Well, I'm really not supposed to speak to strangers, but we've met before.

Princess Aurora

#5. They can't strike against smugglers! We're not the government. We are a criminal private-enterprise operation!

Bruce Sterling

#6. Feedback is a pleasant thing. I get a lot of letters from unexpected people in unexpected places.

Brian Aldiss

#7. Is there a word for adults when they aren't parents?"
Steppa laughs. "Folks with other things to do?"
"Like what things?"
"Jobs, I guess. Friends. Trips. Hobbies.

Emma Donoghue

#8. Men didn't build more armies and forge more weapons without having plans to use them.

Sarah J. Maas

#9. Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.

Bryant H. McGill

#10. Robin Simon, a sociology professor at Florida State University and researcher on parenting and happiness, told The Daily Beast in 20083 that parents experience lower levels of emotional well-being, less frequent positive emotions and more frequent negative emotions than their childless peers.

Jessica Valenti

#11. There's no longer a superpower standoff. But there are real problems that divide countries around the world. And the UN is still the place where we can get together and try and discuss them

Shashi Tharoor

#12. I would love a bowl of Frosties, but I start the day with something healthier like a bowl of yoghurt or berries.

Rachel Stevens

#13. You don't doubt that the lobby supporting the enactment of same sex-marriage laws in different states is politically powerful, do you? ... As far as I can tell, political figures are falling over themselves to endorse your side of the case.

John Roberts

#14. Without a thorough conviction of sin, men may seem to come to Jesus and follow Him for a season, but they will soon fall away and return to the world.

J.C. Ryle

#15. As a mentor and an advocate, I've seen no end to the ways that childless people can contribute to the lives and well-being of kids - and adults, for that matter.

Meghan Daum

#16. Poetry is an exhibit of one pendulum connecting with other and unseen pendulums inside and outside the one seen.

Carl Sandburg

#17. I keep thinking about you every few minutes all day.

Walt Whitman

#18. You are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you.

Vandana Shiva