I can't tell you the number of people including women who are livid by the idea that I choose not to have children.

I remember when I was in college, a came home for the weekend and a local acquaintance was braiding my hair. She said to me, "[ my cousins name] just had a baby. You let her beat you becoming a woman."

I asked, "Beat me. What? I'm a woman with or without a baby." Mind you, I was in college and my cousin was younger than I.