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What is our freedom fight about? Is it about the liberation of children or just having sex with them? — Kate Millett

We take our children everywhere we go. I don't believe in having them and then leaving them to someone else to bring up. — Jayne Mansfield

I got my dad a great father's Day present. He called to say: 'Ach. Zis present is so good I now think it vas almost vorth having children. — Johann Hari

It's like a child who is used to having ice cream whenever he wants. When it doesn't come when he asks he tends to get confused and nervous. — Arsene Wenger

Well, I love having kids. But I have the advantage of having a lot of help, a real hands-on husband and small children whom I can easily manipulate. — Jane Kaczmarek

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation. — Abraham Maslow

To some, having children may seem as conducive to travelling as having your feet set in concrete. — Jane Wilson-Howarth

Never having children is a huge regret of mine. — Frazer Hines

Having and raising children is doing something with your life! ... And I have to say that having your kids is one of the greatest things you can do. — Patricia Heaton

It's hard to know which made me more aware of the impossibility of protecting children - having a child die or having had two live. — Elizabeth McCracken

The nice thing about having relatives' kids around is that they go home. — Cliff Richard

Pioneer children were always having mishaps, but they were expected to know how to use their heads in emergencies. — Carol Ryrie Brink

... hearts wrung with anguish, the anguish of having children, a vulnerability as astonishing as the capacity for love that parenthood brings. — Jeffrey Eugenides

The crisis of children having children has been eclipsed by the greater crisis of children killing children. — Marian Wright Edelman

A road trip with your ancient mommy is just what you need after falling off a mountain and having your soul ripped out by your best friend. — Natasha Larry

Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted. — Eartha Kitt

I have a fantastic team, and it's much easier having children, because that creates a natural limit. — Phoebe Philo

One of the unseen benefits of having children is that they deliver you from your own selfishness. There's no going back. — Martin Amis

No one tells you this, how having children multiplies your capacity for suffering. — Marcel Theroux

Children are a consolation for everthing - except having children. — Paul Auster

Nothing sobers a wandering philosophical imagination like the thought of having a wife and children to support. — John Piper

When you have kids you do grow up. I have just started realising it now-it changes the world, having children. — David Beckham

Nothing prepares a family for having multiple children at once. — Derek Fisher

It's harder for me, never having brought up a child, to enter the universe of the child. — Eckhart Tolle

A baseball manager has learned a lot about his job from having played the game, but a parent has not learned a thing from having once been a child. — Bill Cosby

An advantage of having one child is you always know who did it. — Babs Bell Hajdusiewicz

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. — Elton John

And children? 'I don't have any regrets about not having had children. What's the point? It's just something else to beat yourself up over. — Zoe Wanamaker

Having children really changes your priorities. — Cindy Crawford

Nothing's scarier than having a sick child, and one so newly born, and so vulnerable. It's the worst thing for a parent. — Kenneth Oppel

About age 30 most women think about having children, most men think about dating them. — Judy Carter

The child's naive dream of life is the only one worth having. — Marty Rubin

Children are better off having a parent who works into the night in a job they love than a parent who works shorter hours but comes home unhappy. — Simon Sinek

Having a baby is like falling in love again, both with your husband and your child. — Tina Brown

Having a child who is struggling doesn't make you a bad parent, just as being a child who is struggling doesn't make your child a bad kid. — Ann Douglas

Who dreams of a son,
save one,
childless, having no bright
face to flatter its own,
who dreams of a son? — Hilda Doolittle

Men and women alike have convinced themselves of a dragging belief: that somehow women are incomplete without having children. — Caitlin Moran

There's nothing greater than having a heart filled with love...& eyes filled with light — J.L. Hunt

I will never regret not having children. What I regret is that I live in a world where in spite of everything, that decision is still not quite okay. — Pam Houston

I am a better mother for having something in my life and not just my children. — Katherine Heigl

I planned on having one husband and seven children, but it turned out the other way around. — Lana Turner

One of the reasons I get so much joy out of my own children's childhoods is that I'm having my first childhood myself. — Al Sharpton

Perhaps the greatest importance of the family, in these days of contraceptives, is that it preserves the habit of having children. — Bertrand Russell

Unless everyone grasps the importance of having only two children per couple, wars won't be over just oil anymore, they will be over water and food. — Alexandra Paul

Having children made me go down a road of serious introspection and self-examination. I think it's informed and hopefully enhanced my creativity. — Madonna Ciccone

Expectation is a statistical fiction, like having 2.5 children. — William Poundstone

I am so longing to be domestic,, cooking stew, gardening, hopefully having some children, painting, sitting still in one place. — Eve Best

[ ... ]make sure you raise your children by having them play in their studies, and don't use force. — Plato

Owning stocks is like having children - don't get involved with more than you can handle. — Peter Lynch

We have three cats. It's like having children, but there is no tuition involved. — Ron Reagan

There are all these things I want to do when I don't have to finish a book. But I have to keep writing because I keep having children. — Robert K. Massie

Not having children is one less worry. Children are a worry! — Jeanne Calment

I am determined that my children should have no financial security. It ruins people not having to earn money, — Nigella Lawson

I think a lot of mothers are doing as I am: starting up their own ventures as their children grow older, and having a kind of second blooming. — Donna Air

We want better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them. — Dora Russell

It's pretty easy to kind of lose your way. Having kids is really helpful. They kind of disabuse you of the notion of your greatness pretty quickly. — Matt Damon

You are an incredible child of God having a dream that you are a human being on a tiny planet in the middle of nowhere. — Drunvalo Melchizedek

Telling computer guys that they need to have permission to quote things is like having to tell little children about Death. — Ted Nelson

The traditional rules for having children are long gone. Some days I feel like the harder choice is to not have a kid. — Henriette Mantel

The secret of life is to skip having children and go directly to grandchildren. — Mell Lazarus

Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist. — Michael Levine

Being in a marriage and having children is the greatest pleasure, but it is certainly not the easiest pleasure. It is not like eating ice cream. — Andrew Solomon

Not having children makes less work-but it makes a quiet house. — Susan Glaspell

An unlimited amount of ability can develop when parent and child are having fun together. — Shinichi Suzuki

Having children can be such a gift, but it can be a crushing experience for a certain kind of mom. And I am that certain kind of mom. — Victoria Chang

The trick to having obedient, unquestioning children was to have death be the other option — James Patterson

Those who say that having childlike faith means not asking questions haven't met too many children. — Rachel Held Evans

My mum's always on at me to have children and blames 'that stupid stage thing you do' for me not already having a family. — Paloma Faith

I don't expect the human race to progress in too many areas. However, having a child with an ear infection makes one hugely grateful for antibiotics. — David Bowie

This is the pain-pleasure of having newly adult children; they're innocent and ruthless in forgetting their sweet old dependence. — Ian McEwan

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

While having two biological parents at home is, the statistics tell us, best for children, a single-parent household is almost as good. — Sandra Tsing Loh

Having children just puts the whole world into perspective. Everything else just disappears. — Kate Winslet

I don't want to be romantic, but one of the most important things is to have happy buildings ... it's like having a family with a lot of children. — Renzo Piano

Marriages are not normally made to avoid having children. — Rudolf Virchow

You always hear people say that having kids changes everything, but you can't fully realize it until you have children yourself. — Jeff Bridges

I think we will work our way towards a position that says that having more than two children is irresponsible. — Jonathon Porritt

My mother once said that having a small child is like having a permanently drunk houseguest. — Moira Hodgson

Children are God's way of punishing us for having sex. — Barbara Walters

There's no better way to unplug than having children. Changing diapers is one of the most leveling things that has ever happened to me. — Andrew Lincoln

I haven't done the milestoney things - getting married, buying a house, having children. — Eve Best

Having children is fab. They keep me young and make me get up in the morning. — Jo Brand

Having children truly ends adolescence. We are all either parents or children: responsibility-takers or those who demand from others. — Ben Shapiro

The best part of being a little child is having a long blank page ahead that he can fill it with almost everything! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

We lived longer but at a price. We had to be our own children, having none. — Ray Bradbury

I think having children is the most amazing thing. — Rachel Stevens

Having children is not something you do if you have time, having children is what God gave you time for. — Neil L. Anderson

Having one less child is the biggest contribution anyone can make to leaving a habitable planet — John Guillebaud

To me, writing is not a profession. You might as well call living a profession. Or having children. Anything you can't help doing. — Vicki Baum

Having a baby is definitely a labor of love. — Joan Rivers

I have three children, each of whom is having an idyllic childhood, probably because I have been at the office the entire time. — Stacy Schiff

Having children with someone is the real bond. — Francesca Annis

No one I know is actually so rude as to tell me I've become duller since having children. But I'm sure they think it. — Jo Brand

The one thing I missed was never having children. It just wasn't in the cards, I guess. — Jeanette MacDonald

I highly recommend getting your career established first and then having children. — Arizona Muse

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. — Brian K. Vaughan

I dedicated almost 12 years to the music industry before having children. — Monica Denise Brown

Nobody should have children just because it made the photo library on the computer more interesting. — Nick Hornby

One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun. — Jane Goodall

I think having children in general is always very helpful for acting. — Josh Hamilton