" I accept that people with children are having a deeper, more complex experience of being alive than I am, and this is fine with me. Raising children is one of many life experiences I’m happy to die without having had, like giving birth, going to war, spending a night in jail, or seeing Forrest Gump. If I could get through life without experiencing death, I would gladly do that, too. "

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