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Book: Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on The Decision Not To Have Kids
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  1. Sigrid Nunez _ Selfish, Shallow, and

    At a certain point in her life, she realizes it is not so much that she wants to have a child as that she does not want not to have a child, or not to have had a child'" {109}.
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  2. Sigrid Nunez _ Selfish, Shallow, and

    I believe that fear of being a failure plays a large part in goading many women who are ambivalent about motherhood into maternity. That, and the fear of missing out,
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  3. Sigrid Nunez _ Selfish, Shallow, and

    There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children. {quoting Doris Lessing}
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  4. Sigrid Nunez _ Selfish, Shallow, and

    That there could be something in the world that a woman could want more than children has been viewed as unacceptable. Things may be marginally different now, but, even if there is something she wants more than children, that is no reason for a woman to remain childless. Any normal woman, it is understood, wants-and should want-both.
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