" I'd thought I had recovered for good from that sadness, but as I felt my marriage disintegrate, the memory of my raw yearning for babies and my husband's refusal to have them with me came back to me as part of the reason I was now leaving him. It felt like the heart of why I was so lonely with him. "

― Kate Christensen , Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on The Decision Not To Have Kids