Having children is what a woman is born for, really.

I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.

I've never regretted not having children. My mindset in that regard has been constant. I objected to being born, and I refuse to impose life on someone else.

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.

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.

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.

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

Having children is messy and easy to judge.

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.