Another list of childless female writers

"Think of the literature of writers Dorothy Parker, Ayn Rand, Lillian Hellman, Beatrix Potter, Isak Dinesen, Rachel Carson, Margaret Mitchell, Jane Austen, Helen Keller, Emily Bronte, and Simone de Beauvoir.... These women have enriched our lives immensely in ways other than bringing children into the world."

(from The Childless Revolution: What It Means to Be Childless Today by Madelyn Cain, p. 160)

-- Submitted by Beth Blevins

Childless German writers

..."a considerable portion of women's lives was devoted to life-threatening childbirths and time-consuming child-rearing. It is not surprising, therefore, that a disproportionately large number of women writers were childless (half of the authors in this anthology!), or that women wrote before they were married and after their children had reached adulthood."

(from Bitter Healing: German Women Writers from 1700 to 1830. Jeannine Blackwell, Susanne Zantop. 1990, p. 22.)

-- Submitted by Beth Blevins