“We talk about ‘loving one’s child’ as if a child were a mystical unicorn. Ninety-eight percent of American parents secretly feel that if you have not had and raised a child, your capacity for love is somehow diminished. Ninety-eight percent of American parents secretly believe that non-parents canno…”— Anne Lamott, salon.com
“Mothering has been the richest experience of my life, but I am still opposed to Mother’s Day. It perpetuates the dangerous idea that all parents are somehow superior to non-parents.”— Anne Lamott, salon.com
“My world is not incomplete without a child. And if that bothers people, they need to examine their own lives. Not mine.”— Chinmayee Manjunath, scroll.in
“That’s all it comes down to. Choices. I choose not to have children. I am very aware of the consequences of that choice. I do not stay up at night worrying about who will change my adult diapers 30 or 40 years later, if it comes to that. My womb does not collapse in sadness when I see other people’s…”— Chinmayee Manjunath, scroll.in
“It is ridiculous that I am viewed by the majority of people as a deeply flawed woman just because I do not have a child.”— Chinmayee Manjunath, scroll.in