Quotes About Childlessness

#1. It is no longer unusual for people who choose surrogacy, gay adoption, IVF, international and domestic adoption, fostering, and childlessness to live side by side and quietly judge each other. We can all live in peace thinking our way is the best way and everything else is cuckoo.

Amy Poehler

#2. Yes, her childlessness was a fugue in itself, a flight- this was the habitual theme she was trying now to resist- a flight from her proper destiny. Her failure to become a woman, as her mother understood the term.

Ian McEwan

#3. Maybe I wanted children, maybe I didn't, but I wanted the decision to be a choice, not a mandate. Last time I checked, childlessness was only supposed to be a condition of career advancement for nuns.

Peggy Orenstein

#4. Childlessness doesn't make people selfish; selfishness makes people selfish.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#5. The enduring rapture with magic and fable has always struck me as latently childish and somehow sexless (and thus also related to childlessness).

Christopher Hitchens

#6. I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.

T.D. Jakes

#7. The man who can speak acceptably is usually given credit for an ability out of all proportion to what he really possesses.

Lowell Thomas

#8. I will never 'get over' not having a family (it's not the flu), but that doesn't mean that I can't build a new life.

Jody Day

#9. And what's with all the names on the new list? I've got kids I'd like to spend time with tonight."
"Give it to Lankford. He has the time. I think he ate his kids.

Michael Connelly

#10. At the cry of a new born salt is being sprinkle at the wound of a barren woman

Peter Adejimi

#11. Make God's glory your object in life; live in his sight; dwell close to him; seek for fellowship with him; and thou hast "godliness";

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#12. We both liked children; we just didn't want any ourselves. There were children everywhere, and we saw no reason to start our own brand. Young couples plunge into parenthood and about half the time they end up with some ghastly problem on their hands. We thought we'd leave that to others.

Thomas McGuane

#13. You insinuated yourself into my heart like a worm into an apple, and I am consumed by you.

Seanan McGuire

#14. This is all too important." Aenea smiled. "It's all too important. That's the damned problem, isn't it?" She turned her face back to the stars.

Dan Simmons

#15. One of my favorite comedy performances of all time is Charles Grodin in 'Midnight Run,' and in a lot of things he's done. I think he's hilarious as the straight man, playing it real.

Andy Daly

#16. To achieve unity without uniformity is the whole essence of the democratic way of life.

Jan Struther