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There were a lot of these middle-aged single types in the neighborhood, shipwrecked by every kind of catastrophe, but she was one of the few who didn't have children, who lived alone, who was still kinda young. Something must have happened, your mother speculated. In her mind, a woman with no child could be explained only by vast untrammelled calamity. Maybe she just doesn't like children. Nobody likes children, your mother assured you. That doesn't mean you don't have them.Unknown
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The enduring rapture with magic and fable has always struck me as latently childish and somehow sexless (and thus also related to childlessness).Christopher Hitchens
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Wherever they went– Moscow, Tehran, the Syrian coast, Switzerland–a furnished house, villa, or apartment awaited the young couple. And their philosophies of life were the same: "We have only one life! " So take everything life can give, except one thing: the birth of a child. For a child is an idol who sucks dry the juices of your being without any return for your sacrifices, not even ordinary gratitude.Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn