Quotes of: Childless Keyword

The separation of a childless couple is dramatic, but the separation of a couple with children is always tragic.

Louis Garrel

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

Francis Bacon

Childlessness doesn't make people selfish; selfishness makes people selfish.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Margaret "Maggie" Pollitt: You're a drinker and i'm childless.

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

H.I.: Biology and the prejudices of others conspired to keep us childless.

Raising Arizona

If there is a substantial difference between a gay couple and a childless heterosexual couple, I'm unable to see it.

Daniel Keys Moran

A mother-in-law is better than a single and childless political persona, though.

Vladimir Zhirinovsky

...there’s few on Earth as can cut a man deeper than his childless wife.

Black Bottle Man

My role models were childless: Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes.

Joyce Carol Oates

I am single and childless, but I have lots of friends and I am an aunt to three lovely children.

Kate DiCamillo

I'm a childless woman, yet I felt no maternal urges whatsoever. The prospect of years of broken nights and nappy changes holds no appeal for me.

Kiki Dee

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.

Carol Leifer

This archaic idea - that a woman who is unmarried and childless at 30 is somehow unnatural - will probably always exist, and, like most social standards, it is ridiculous.

Beth Ditto

Out of all the fathers in the world, I am the most like Mother Theresa. Also, I am childless. 

Sleepwalking is restercise

For Shama and her sisters and women like them, ambition, if the word could be used, was a series of negatives; not to be unmaried, not to be childless, not to be an undutiful daughter, sister, wife, mother, widow.

V.S. Naipaul

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.

Sarah Paulson

If you wait until the right time to have a child you'll die childless, and I think film making is very much the same thing. You just have to take the plunge and just start shooting something even if it's bad.

James Cameron

Narrator: [voice-over] Fate had determined that he should leave none of his race behind him, and that he should finish his life poor, lonely and childless.

Barry Lyndon

The enduring rapture with magic and fable has always struck me as latently childish and somehow sexless (and thus also related to childlessness).

Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays

too much alcohol hampers people's ability to parent. That's why I've chosen to remain childless.

Lust, Loathing and a Little Lip Gloss

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.

Stray Love