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Single motherhood is an amazing thing; it's a blessing.
It's very lonely bringing up a child on your own.
I don't have kids at all and I thank God that I never did.
I had no children and shall have none. There are moments when this troubles me, when I reflect that with me a line will end which has lasted since the beginning of humanity.
I feel like a semi-single mum.
I dropped a word from the string of negative adjectives that had trailed behind me like tin cans behind the village idiot. Unappreciated, unloved, unmarried. But no longer unpublished.
You don't have to give birth to someone to have a family.
My husband and I don't have children. We can't have children because we hate them.
I'm an only child.
My darling, you are indisposed! You must remain abed for the next eight months. Little Buford - "
"I am NOT naming our child Buford ...
It is a strange thing being suddenly motherless. It's like losing a rudder that was keeping me on course, one that I never paid much mind to before now. Who will teach me how to parent, how to deal with the unkindness of strangers, how to be humble? You already did, I realize.
Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children? Those who've never had any.
Parenthood is nothing but doubts.
The world is full of women who have children, and women who don't, but there is also a silent band of women who almost had them. I am one of those. I was a mother. And then I wasn't.
To have children is a double living, the earthly fountain of youth, a continual fresh delight, a volcano as well as a fountain, and also a source of weariness beyond description ...
A son is a poor substitute for a mother.
Having children was not like people said. Forget training them in your footsteps; the minute they put down the teething ring and found the Internet, you were useless as a source of anything but shoes and a winter coat.
Oh, I guess I'm physically able to father a child. That's not what I'm thinking. I'm too closely married to a quiet reading lamp.
I have two children. I have a daughter 29, and a daughter four. They are 25 years apart, so you speak about generations and I must tell you, I have a philosophy and that is every 25 years I'm going to sire another child.
No one chooses to raise children alone.
Childlessness doesn't make people selfish; selfishness makes people selfish.
Having no children had been a kind of choice up to the moment when, from a choice, it became a sadness.
When you don't have children you have to define and make your own purpose, and make your own reason for being here.
Having a child is sowing the seeds of your own obsolescence: birth is the fuse that leads to that other thing. You appear, you replace yourself, you die.
I was an unhappy child, and that puts me off having a child of my own.
No one warned you that having children reduced you right down to some smaller, rudimentary, primitive version of yourself, where your talents and your education and your achievements meant nothing. Clementine
If I have no children what would be the point of living.
Couples without kids have each other, their friends, families, and Siri to talk to. It's not like they're quarantining themselves in an underground bunker, never to take a romantic stroll on the beach or attend a Morrissey concert ever again. They're just using birth control.
Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.
As far as I know, my husband never had a baby.
And a mother without children is not a mother at all, and if I am not a mother, than I am nothing. Nothing. I am like sugar dissolved in a glass of water. Or, I am like salt, which disappears when you cook with it. I am salt. Without my children, I cease to exist.
A parent who cannot provide the basic needs of two children, must not even bear one.
If you ask me, most people have children just as their own enthusiasm about life begins to wane.
I am reminded of yet one more reason why I avoid children, why I have remained intentionally childless. Children make ruthless biographers and terrifying judges.
Virgin to father in zero to sixty
There are loads of women that don't want children. What does it matter? I'm still a woman.
I'm not adopting a baby.
When you're in your mid-thirties, the cult of people who have children around you all want you in their cult, and they constantly ask you, 'So when are you going to have a baby?'
There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.
Truly barren is a secular education. It is always in labor, but never gives birth.
I am glad that I do not have any children.
Happy the mother who bears, happier still the biographer who records the life of such a one!
My mom, for all intents and purposes, was a single parent.
For official purposes, these children do not exist.
If there is one regret that I have had in my life, it is that I never fathered any children. There are times, when I look at what Fergus and Beryl have produced, when I consider myself fortunate, but there are also times when it breaks my heart.
There is no child left within me, none whatsoever.
Unlike a disappointing marriage, disappointing motherhood cannot be terminated by divorce.
Never having children is a huge regret of mine.
Don't even talk to me about being a mother. You were never a mother! Just the psychotic twat I lived with for the first fourteen years.
I was an only child, eventually.
Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories.
We have no children Harriet. Or, rather, I have no children. You have one child.
You see how deviously the institution of marriage threads itself through a woman's life? If she does not marry she is perpetually a child - until she is suddenly an old woman, that is.
The great regret of my life is that I didn't have children.
Sort of pregnant. Sort of dead. Sort of Jewish. These are impossibles.
I'm married. And pregnant.
Paternity, paternity. Let's think about this. This discriminates against the childless. So you get a year off because you produce a brat. If anything if you have a child you should work more because your brat's going to annoy me at the restaurants.
A bachelor's children are always young: they're immortal children - always lisping, waddling, helpless, and with a chance of turning out good.
Having children is what a woman is born for, really.
So many people have so much trouble having kids.
This couple, so involved with babies, had never reproduced themselves, though they could have. This was an interesting comment on the whole idea of reproduction.
Never have children, only grandchildren.
The traditional rules for having children are long gone. Some days I feel like the harder choice is to not have a kid.
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You should beware of motherless children. They will eat you alive. You will never be loved by anyone the way that you will be loved by a motherless child.
I definitely don't have any desire to have children.
The act of choosing whether or not to have a child is often an act of love, and always an act of survival.
babies over the years.
Having children is something we think we ought to do because our parents did it, but when it is over the children are just other members of the human race, rather disappointingly.
A woman can produce what no man can: a child.
I have no maternal instinct whatsoever. Motherhood holds no interest for me.
But he and his friends have no children, and in their absence, the world sprawls before them, almost stifling in its possibilities.
No, I'm not adopting any children.
Motherless children have a hard time when the mother is gone. That
What is the use of a new-born child ?
The mother of three notoriously unruly youngsters was asked whether or not she'd have children if she had it to do over again. 'Yes', she replied 'but not the same ones.'
A man can be a parent without knowing it: a woman cannot.
The reason most people have kids is because they get pregnant.
I'm desperate to have children. I am chomping at the bit. It's a problem. I can't imagine that I will not be a mother.
A daughter,' Rowley scooped up the child and held her high. The baby blinked from sleep and crowed with him. 'Any fool can have a son,' he said. 'It takes a man to conceive a daughter.
By nature I'm not a brooder.
There are no illegitimate babies.
A marriage without children is the world without the sun.
There's no such thing as other people's children.
I think I'm a father, but a father of three kids!
Parenthood is not an object of appetite or even desire. It is an object of will. There is no appetite for parenthood; there is only a purpose or intention of parenthood.
I'm yet again increasingly glad I am an only child.
Seven years after becoming a lone parent, I feel qualified to look anyone in the eye and say that people bringing up children single-handedly deserve, not condemnation, but congratulation.
I've longed for kids since I was very, very young. And so ... I'm waiting to find the right person, someone who's willing to take on the job.
No children?" Emilio asked them one evening, to his own surprise.
"Nope. Turned out, we don't breed well in captivity," George said, unembarrassed.
The truth is that a woman who chooses not to have children has generally engaged the question of a mother's responsibilities to a degree of seriousness not previously explored when motherhood was simply a natural necessity.
woe of unnumbered generations
So Carol, you're a housewife and mother. And have you got any children?
When the ordinary thought of a highly cultivated people begins to regard 'having children' as a question of pro's and con's, the great turning point has come.
What least makes a mother is biology.
As a nonparent, I stand in awe of parents.
Having children truly ends adolescence. We are all either parents or children: responsibility-takers or those who demand from others.
Parenthood is the passing of a baton, followed by a lifelong disagreement as to who dropped it.
Who dreams of a son,
save one,
childless, having no bright
face to flatter its own,
who dreams of a son?