Status Updates From Je ne veux pas être maman

“I don’t know what the future has in store for me . . . But I do know that we all come to the same end. When that moment arrives, I hope to have lived the life I chose for myself and not the one that others wanted for me.”

"I came to the conclusion that, no matter what we do, women will always be punished by cultural norms."

"I couldn't understand why my decision to remain child-free felt like an attack to those who had made the opposite decision."

Finally, someone puts what I'm feeling into words!

"For me, the consequences of motherhood would be so negative on a number of levels that I decided not to pursue it. And the way I saw it, I was acting responsibly. Not selfishly. I was exasperated by the way goodness and generosity were associated with women who wanted to be mothers, while selfishness and coldness were associated with those who didn't."