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Quotes About Childfree

As a woman of a certain age - and really, ever since I hit puberty and my baby-making parts were suddenly subject to public debate - I've been told over and over again that I will 'change my mind' about not wanting kids.
~ Jen Kirkman
I have chosen not to have children.
~ Mona Eltahawy
So all my friends have kids now... which I think is rude.
~ David Cross
It's not that I don't care about seeing her baby, it's that I don't care about seeing any baby. Also
~ Jami Attenberg
I think some people can't understand why you wouldn't want kids but I can't see any advantages at all. We're overpopulated as it is. Plus, I hate thinking the only reason I'm here is to pop out a kid or two. I'd rather leave something else behind.
~ Diane Morgan
The cat required far less attendance than a human child, which is one of the reasons why spinster ladies prefer felines to babies.
~ Elizabeth Peters
Asking questions about why I don't want kids is really none of your business, but at least it's a dialogue.
~ Jen Kirkman
Every woman who chooses - joyfully, thoughtfully, calmly, of their own free will and desire - not to have a child does womankind a massive favour in the long term.
~ Caitlin Moran
I have a significant other and a large, immediate family. No children, thank goodness. And I have a 13-year-old kitty.
~ Andrea Parker
My wife and I don't have kids and people are down on us about it. But we're just not wired that way, so don't tell me I have to.
~ Paul Feig
My grandparents had 15 children, my parents had 2 children and I won't be having any child.
~ Shraddha Srinath
Childfree women are actually great assets to the planet. Our carbon footprint is smaller than a mom's! And we have enough money to write checks to organizations that help kids get vaccinations, vitamins, and educations yet have plenty of free time to advise your daughter that one day she will regret piercing her lip.
~ Jen Kirkman
Even before I knew I was gay, I knew I didn't want to have a child. I knew I didn't want to have one. I never want to have to release it from me. Listen, I love babies. I love children. And I melt when I'm around them. I also love my freedom and I love that I can sleep at night.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
A lot of women feel apologetic or feel the need to make excuses for not having children but women don't need to if they don't want to.
~ Jo Frost
Let the people who want to have kids, have them. And let the rest of us spend the extra money on ourselves. Being gay doesn't make you a bad person. Not wanting kids doesn't make you a bad person. Perhaps crushing the bones in one little girl's hand makes you a bad person, but that was an accident.
~ Augusten Burroughs
Anyhow, she knew when she looked into her heart she'd never really wanted kids anyhow. She'd seen how kids dropped from the sky and exploded people's lives like squalling neutron bombs. She was honest enough to admit she was too selfish for that; her life, her only life, was her own.
~ Stephen Baxter
The funny thing is that I've known since I was 7 years old that I was never going to have kids. I always imagined myself as this worldly, traveling gypsy lady.
~ Kat Von D
Jede Anekdote endete allerdings mit der Feststellung, warum es sich trotzdem lohnte, eine Rossfrau zu lieben: Ihr Hintern blieb bis ins hohe Alter straff, sie wollte keine Kinder und ging nicht fremd.
~ Juli Zeh
Even before I knew I was gay, I knew I didn't want to have a child. I knew I didn't want to have one. I never want to have to release it from me. Listen, I love babies. I love children. And I melt when I'm around them. I also love my freedom and I love that I can sleep at night.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
Many couples choose not to have friends with kids and find fulfilling friendships with like-minded couples who also value disposable income over propagating the human race.
~ Brian Murphy
I think still it is very fine not to want children. There are far too many people in the world. It is my contribution to ecology.
~ Helen Mirren
I've always said I don't want to have kids. I don't want a kid at all, but I do like reverse-engineering myself; managing and parenting myself.
~ Fiona Apple
People are constantly asking Portia and me if we are going to have children. We thought about it. We love to be around children after they've been fed and bathed. But we ultimately decided that we don't want children of our own. There is far too much glass in our house.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
1970s, only one in ten women was childfree; today the number is one in five.169 Yet when I mention my choice, I've had moms look at me like I'm defective, or a unicorn, or a defective unicorn. Keep your pity; I don't need it.
~ Jen Lancaster