“Laura felt we needed to redefine what it means to be selfish, and quoted Oscar Wilde: 'Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.”

“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.”

“Being childfree does not mean we don't like children; it means we don't care to have children of our own. We just want people to accept that: It's okay to be different, and not everyone has to have kids to be fulfilled. I do know some people get so much joy out of their kids. I see it in my friends who have kids. And I don't envy that, because I feel like I have so much joy in my own life. I appreciate theirs, and more power to them, but we have our own. This is our way of having joy.”

“In a very real sense, people who have read good literaturehave lived more than people who cannot or will not read.It is not true that we have only one life to lead; if we can read,we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.”

“Parenthood is a choice, not an obligation. We are not against the parenting decision; we respect parents, and so we want to be respected.”

“Being childless by choice doesn't mean you hate kids,' wrote Jodi. 'In fact, my friends' children are smart, funny, loving, interesting people who just happen to be kids.”

“A person who reads lives a thousand lives. A person who reads not, lives only one.”