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21 " And then bam – even though I should have seen it coming – babies are suddenly on the brain. There is an abrupt tap on the shoulder from friends, family, society and suddenly it’s the number one topic of conversation. Babies. Babies. Babies. When. When. When. "
― Emma Gannon , Olive
22 " When I am an adult, I would think, everything will be good. I will finally be free. Adulthood = Freedom. "
23 " You know what gets to me? The knowing, smug smirk that so often accompanies the words: “You’ll change your mind.”’ Kym, 35 "
24 " she hadn't chiselled the fact that she didn't want kids into stone; she cam to it naturally, gradually. It was just something that made sense for her as she lived her life. Sometimes we don't 'know' for sure, and maybe we never will, but we just have to live each day in the way that feels most natural to us. "
25 " Well, you must remember that no decision is ever really the wrong decision. Because it's the decision you made at the time. Respect your past self and her choices, "
26 " Ah, I´m not ready yet, sorry," I say. The story of my life. "
27 " and six-year-old Amelia wants to play her violin to us. No offence, Amelia, but you’re not very good. "
28 " Everybody with a womb doesn’t have to have a child any more than everybody with vocal cords has to be an opera singer.’ Gloria Steinem, Chelsea Lately, October 2011 "
29 " Why wouldn’t he understand that being on the pill and off the pill and in between the pill all means I have an excuse to act totally loopy? "
30 " Respect your past self and her choices. "
31 " Have you ever questioned that maybe nothing was wrong with you in the first place? That nothing needed fixing? That you are right where you are meant to be? There are so many ways to live a fulfilled life. What you do, the people you impact, it’s all so valuable. "
32 " Turns out that you can´t Pritt-stick a life together as a child and then hop inside it when the time is right like Bert from Mary Poppins. "
33 " I know she looks like a swan swimming around on the surface, but her legs are really splashing around underneath. "
34 " We’re all out here, making up our lives as we go along. There is no ‘better’ path. There is no ‘worse’ path. "
35 " I don’t want to put all the pressure on this poor Reiki woman to heal all of my life’s problems, but it would be great if she could. "
36 " I also used to think that people were actually stacked on top of each other during University Challenge – it’s actually just edited that way. "
37 " The more I hide it, the heavier it becomes. Each woman I know carries it – shame – but it’s a different shape for us all. "
38 " think I am in that rare and temporary point in life where I am an ‘old young person’ and a ‘young old person’. I’m bang in the middle: young enough to be cool, old enough to have some experience of how shit life can be. "
39 " guess this is being human: we can never be 100 per cent sure about any decision we make. "
40 " It had felt so simple when we’d first laid down the rules in our twenties, on the day we left our shared house: that no matter what happened, we would make time for each other. Many people make the mistake of kicking friendships aside for the other seemingly more important strands of life, but we all know it’s friendship that really keeps you afloat. We weren’t going to be those people who let friendships slide. Or were we? "