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Because our generation has waited so long to have babies, we feel we've 'discovered' something that women have been doing for thousands of years. I have no illusions that I will be in the same situation as the average working mother. I'm not trying to prove anything - I just want to have kids.

I remember back in the '90s, I used to feel criticized by women for not having children. Like there must be something wrong with me.

It's not so much that I ever declared: 'I will never have children.' I just never found the right man to settle down with, so it didn't happen.

I've never in my life said I didn't want to have children. I did and I do and I will!

There are loads of women that don't want children. What does it matter? I'm still a woman.

A hundred years ago, if you had a child out of marriage, you'd be a social disgrace. Today women feel comfortable enough economically and culturally to bring up a child without a recognized commitment from a man.

Why did I not stop to have children? I suppose because the opportunity didn't present itself. Yes, many women feel they are not complete without having children, but I have different creative outlets.

I never felt that my life was not complete without a child. I don't know if that, as a younger man, I'd have had full appreciation for it.

I don't see any reason why I couldn't have a child when I'm 40.

I don't have a child, so Women for Women is like my child. But I always said I would step down after 20 years. I didn't want to be a 60-year-old woman holding on to something I created when I was 23.