Childfree Women Quotes

“Rather than pondering whether childfree women qualify as 'real women', perhaps the better question is why we are so hell-bent on forcing narrow and constricting rules on what makes a woman. Some women choose to be mothers. Others do not. Real women are whoever they wish to be.”
― Amy Blackstone, Childfree by Choice: The Movement Redefining Family and Creating a New Age of Independence

“Extinction, while sad and scary, doesn't bother me as much as does the suffering of the individuals prior to being wiped out.”
― Henriette Mantel, No Kidding: Women Writers on Bypassing Parenthood

“i didn’t want kids back when i was a kid,
changing my brothers’ stinky nappies at 7 years old
&i haven’t changed me mind

&if i’m ever unsure,
just remember that
uncertainty is certainly rejection”
― Xayaat Muhummed, The Breast Mountains Of All Time Are In Hargeisa

“if children weren’t so childish,
i’d have children
but that doesn’t even matter

i love children
but i don’t want to acc have any”
― Malab, The Komorébi, The Breast Mountains Of All Time

“If you had any compassion, you'd realize that Lindsay's been working toward this her entire life, and that if she wanted to be your walking uterus and au pair, she'd have volunteered for that task years ago.”
― Rachel Kapelke-Dale, Ballerinas

“Only in my mid-twenties and already married did I realize I had always thought of childlessness as a destination. I knew I wanted to go there, but I had never asked myself what would happen once I arrived. Now that the future of someone I loved would also be shaped by my intent not to have a child, it suddenly felt urgent to understand what it would be like not just to pass through but to live in that childfree place for the rest of my life.”
― Nicole Louie

“It's almost as if - in being childfree yourself - you become everybody else's child: someone who needs taking care of, who needs guiding in the right direction, who doesn't quite understand, but bless her she's trying”
― Elizabeth Day, How to Fail