Quotes from Lauren Sandler

in a way though it is easier to give in to a decision to have a second than to stand firm in one's wish to only have one child.

I've lived the life I wanted in my thirties, my forties, my fifties - they're all different lives, with different desires, which you never realize when you're young.

It seems the more of a parent you are, the less you are of anything else.

We onlies, we fear the nothing. We fear the winds that howl around the last one standing. We fear the black silence of carrying those ever-fading histories alone.

In the past we assumed it was out of a woman's control" whether or not she had a child. "Now we think it's her choice, so we can blame her.