Against motherhood

I haven't read this novel yet, but, based on the review in today's NY Times, I plan to. 

Some choice quotations from the book about a woman resisting pressure to have children.

“It[childbearing] suddenly seemed like a huge conspiracy to keep women in their 30s — when you finally have some brains and some skills and experience — from doing anything useful with them at all.”

“If no one had told me anything about the world, I would have invented boyfriends, I would have invented sex, friendships, art. I would not have invented child-rearing.”

“I resent the spectacle of all this breeding, which I see as a turning away from the living — an insufficient love for the rest of us, we billions of orphans already living...When a person has a child, they are turned towards their child. The rest of us are left in the cold.”