Words matter. These are the best Childless Quotes from famous people such as Joyce Carol Oates, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, Lionel Shriver, Sarah Paulson, Louis Garrel, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
My role models were childless: Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes.
As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.
The absence of doll babies in my toy chest didn’t seriously influence my later decision not to become a mother; rather, I disdained Hasbro’s Baby Alive wetting doll because I was already the kind of girl who would grow up to be childless by choice.
I usually feel like the role comes to you to sort of illuminate some piece of where you are in your life. I feel like I myself am a single woman and I’m childless – by choice – at this point, and I don’t know what will happen.
The separation of a childless couple is dramatic, but the separation of a couple with children is always tragic.
If there is a substantial difference between a gay couple and a childless heterosexual couple, I’m unable to see it.
So my father grew up in an orphanage in Boston. He was then adopted by an elderly childless couple from Maine, who gave him the name of Mitchell. He moved to Maine, and there he met my mother and was married.
I suddenly had this really mad desire to have an affair with a woman. I was divorced. I was childless. I figured there’s got to be one more way to really tick off my mom.
There’s this idea that at the lowest rungs of the social ladder in an African family is a childless woman – and the lowest rung of all is a motherless child.
I have a romantic conception of the writer’s life, and the sort of writer’s life that I admire is probably a childless life, possibly a marriageless life, certainly a travelling life – I’m in awe of how much D.H. Lawrence managed to get around. But that’s never been something I’m capable of doing.
As a mentor and an advocate, I’ve seen no end to the ways that childless people can contribute to the lives and well-being of kids – and adults, for that matter.
