I got married to Doug in 2005. I knew that we wanted to delay having children for a while, and I had tried pretty much every hormonal birth control method under the sun.
Abby Johnson
Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.
Abraham Maslow
I've seen mothers and children really being vulnerable in the refugee camps; it's supposed to be temporary, but they end up having children who have grown up in refugee camps.
Alek Wek
I want to make words out of life. That's bigger than me. That's as big a creative force as - bigger than, for me, even having children. That felt more accidental - wonderful, but accidental.
Alexandra Fuller
My brothers and sisters started having children at a very early age, and I was just there all alone at one point, like, 'What do I do?' And I thought the only thing I can do is create mine, make my family, and I did that.
Alyssa Edwards
I have no regrets about not having children. I still wait for the pang of guilt, but I have none. I tune into the television show 'Nanny 911' occasionally which reminds me how much patience and love it take to be a good parent.
Amanda Donohoe
Having children has no bearing on the ability to be PM. I deeply regret that anyone has got the impression that I think otherwise.
Andrea Leadsom
Having children was a revelation - it's like going through a doorway, and everything is different forever.
Andrew Lincoln
I do not mind if a PM or leader of the opposition is single but if he or she chooses to dispense with marriage despite living with someone and having children, then I think that shows a contempt for marriage which sends an unfortunate message.
Ann Widdecombe
My mother had a very open-minded philosophy about having children: that they should be free to develop in their own way.
Annabelle Wallis
Having children, they're not your property. They need to figure out their own views. I think my daughters have a pretty healthy self-awareness, but I can't speak on their behalf.
Annie Lennox
I always had musicians in my band having children, and their wives were the ones at home taking care of the kids. So I never thought much of it. And then suddenly I'm the parent, but I'm the woman, and it's like, 'Ah, what happens now?'
Anoushka Shankar
There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.
Anthony Edwards
I highly recommend getting your career established first and then having children.
Arizona Muse
Having children does become tied to a sense of identity and our value as humans.
Ayobami Adebayo
Having children truly ends adolescence. We are all either parents or children: responsibility-takers or those who demand from others.
Ben Shapiro
I never planned on having children, that's never been a desire of mine.
Beth Ostrosky Stern
I have my animals, we have the greatest life and I don't see us having children - never say never - but I really don't see it.
Having children changes your outlook 100 percent of your life.
Bill Goldberg
And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don't have the privilege of bringing them up?
Bob Geldof
Having children changes you forever, as a writer and as a human being. I hope it's for the better on both counts, but I guess we'll see.
Shows can come and go. They can be a hit and then in three years, gone. There's some comfort in having the stability of a job and having children. It's a double-edged sword.
Before having children, I think I probably approached work very differently, and you become much more economical and pragmatic about your relationship to it.
Having children is messy and easy to judge.
Having children really changes your priorities.
Especially since having children, a lot of the time if you ask me, 'Have you read that book?' the answer would be 'not personally.'
Not having children isn't something I regret. I acknowledge that some things have been easier for me than they would have been for others.
I want to have money so I can spend it having children. I want to have three or four and be a really good mother and make sure they have a really brilliant life with parents who are not struggling.
Definitely for me, my personality, having children was a definite sea change. I found it very, very hard to balance show business and being a dad. The narcissism of show business and the complete, total focus of it was very difficult.
Even after having children, after five months I was dancing again, which was kind of crazy.
When you have kids you do grow up. I have just started realising it now-it changes the world, having children.
Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round.
I think I became more productive through not having children. I never really had the desire to have them. My husband didn't want them either, so it worked out well.
We want better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.
My friends started having children after college, while I was pursuing this crazy acting career and living hand to mouth. Plus, all my boyfriends were artists struggling to make a living. Having kids didn't make any sense - why would I take on more of a financial burden when I couldn't even afford a dog?
I'm not sure I'll ever love softball as much as bobsled. It's like having children: you don't love one more than the other, you just love them differently, and that's how my love for softball is vs. my love of bobsled - two totally different sports with different personalities.
I personally didn't subscribe to drastically changing our lives as a result of having children. Our children are our world, but I truly believe that it's healthier to invite children into your life instead of making everything about them.
Having children is my greatest achievement. It was my saviour. It switched my focus from the outside to the inside. My children are gifts, they remind me of what's important.
Everything I thought I'd hate about having children - the crying, the screaming - nothing fazes me. I love it all, and it's relaxed me.
I feel like having children - and the illness I had when I was pregnant - is probably more important than anything else to the person I am now. I'm massively aware of how we can take everything for granted - how fragile life is.
It's hard, but what's the point of having children unless you're there to raise them, I reckon.
I haven't done the milestoney things - getting married, buying a house, having children.
Before we got married, I had tremendous ambition. Once we got married and I started having children, then I just thought that that was my real life. Steve was definitely more ambitious than I.
Having children with someone is the real bond.
Never having children is a huge regret of mine.
I feel like it's a natural progression for two people in love to talk about having children and taking that next step in creating a family.
I would say the biggest challenge I had as a woman in science is be a mom. It's really hard. It's very hard work having children, and I tell kids this all the time.
Appallingly, I hadn't thought about it one jot. I never daydreamed as a little girl of getting married and having children. I was as surprised to discover I was getting married as I was to discover I was up the duff.
One of the great pleasures of having children is spending one-on-one time with them. Sadly, I could do that for only a few minutes at a time. I'd never say that ADD/ADHD is a gift or a blessing. And if someone says it is a gift, I'd love to return it.
I'm quite jealous of my Scottish relations, in whose culture everyone, in a Jane Austen kind of way, got married very young, when you're too young to be cynical or jaded and just started having children.
