Women Without Kids

The Revolutionary Rise of an Unsung Sisterhood

De: Ruby Warrington

Narrado por: Ruby Warrington

“The work Ruby is doing is liberating.”
—Glennon Doyle, New York Times bestselling author of Untamed

“A startling, confronting, and liberating treatise.”
—Holly Whitaker, New York Times bestselling author of Quit Like a Woman

What is “woman” if not “mother”?
Anything she wants to be.

Foregoing motherhood has traditionally marked a woman as “other.” With no official place setting for her in our society, she has hovered on the sidelines: the quirky girl, the neurotic career obsessive, the “eccentric” aunt. Instead of continuing to paint women without kids as sad, self-obsessed, or somehow dysfunctional, what if we saw them as boldly forging a first-in-a-civilization vision for a fully autonomous womankind? Or as journalist and thought leader Ruby Warrington asks, What if being a woman without kids were in fact its own kind of legacy?

Taking in themes from intergenerational healing to feminism to environmentalism, this personal look and anthropological dig into a stubbornly taboo topic is a timely and brave reframing of what it means not to be a mom. Our experiences and discourse around non-motherhood are central to women’s ongoing fight for gender equality. And whether we are childless by design or circumstance, we can live without regret, shame, or compromise.

Bold and tenderhearted, Women Without Kids seeks first and foremost to help valorize a path that is the natural consequence of women having more say about the choices we make and how our lives play out. Within this, it unites the unsung sisterhood of non-mothers—no longer pariahs or misfits, but as a vital part of our evolution and collective healing as women, as humans, and as a global family.

She was reading to me!

I needed every word! Thank you Ruby for being a voice for people like me and for feeling empowered by it!

Empowering

I wish I had had this book in my twenties when I struggled more potently with feeling different for not wanting to be a mother. But at 38, I still found clarity and empowerment in Warrington’s research and personal story. I recommend it to parents, non parents by choice and non parents not by choice, alike

Loved it

I loved this book and the reading of it was an enriching and entertaining presence in my ears. Highly recommend.

Clarity

That I’m not alone in my thoughts on how society condemns us for not having children but also get no help

Feeling seen!

Women Without Kids so carefully and concisely puts into words all the reasons women do not need, want or should be expected to bear children. From difficulty in fertility to those that choose an "affirmative no", it is confirmation that women are more than and complete without the need for dependants.