Lisa, you need a night out, honey. Quit comparing yourself to others in your suburb and just breathe.

She is a brave girl. She said that she didn't want kids. She is so nice, at least in my mind. Her profile and photos were found on a interracial dating site interracialchatting . c o m last week.

Stunning, amazing, how many people failed to understand what I wrote, because they didn't bother to read it at all. So much for reading skills.

I never trashed any woman who chooses to have a child. In fact, I didn't trash anyone. I pointed out the VERY OBVIOUS reality that there are a lot of women out there who have children for the wrong reasons - social status - and end up unhappy. I say this as an argument for the choice of many women like Renee Zellweger - not to have children. Not all women find happiness in family. I accept that the same choices are not right for everybody - why can't you? I guess it's because you can not read.

Next time, please try to read before you react. And, like I wrote, "The Mommy Myth" is THE NAME OF A BOOK - IDIOTS. DUH!

3:25 PM Anne Onymous Says:

Good for her! She speaks for more women than she probably even realizes. Not all of us plan to have kids and not all of us want them. It doesn't mean that we're necessarily lesbian or that we hate sex or men or kids or whatever -- some of us just don't have that "mothering instinct" and prefer the kind of kids we can send home to their parents at the end of the day!

Anne...AMEN! In today's society women are instantly pigeonholed if they express the desire of not wanting to have children. For some of us it just might not be in the cards. I'm 35 & I watch my single friends do some of the most stupid things. Some ALWAYS need a boyfriend & others are hopping bed to bed just TO get pregnant, forget the guy. I've wanted to adopt since forever & at 28 began debating. Since then I found out it's just not in the cards for me. No biggie, life goes on, deal with what's thrown at you.

Childless and Happy!

You sound pretty unhappy to me! Anyone who views another person's life choices as wrong or someone as a sheep because it's not what they chose is obviously unhappy.

I am 32, I have a college degree in Business Admin, I have been married for 7 years, I have four children and I am very happy with "my" choices. Unlike you however, I see nothing wrong with choosing to remain single or childless. I can see the obvious benefits to being alone. Being a mommy is not a "myth". It's a wonderful gift.

5:20 PM "Good for her. The world is far overpopulated anyway. Anyone who judges her needs to read "The Mommy Myth." It's about how generations of women have been brainwashed into the marriage-and-family trap, only to find themselves MISERABLE. The powers that be have to encourage us to reproduce to populate the nation. The problem is, as these comments show, there are A LOT of women who would have preferred to have done something else with their lives. Glorifying "motherhood" just sets us back light years, convinces women to forestall their true dreams in favor of doing what they really want to do, and contributes to making an already overcrowded planet even worse. The times, they are a changin'. If you think there's anything wrong with that, please crawl back under whatever rock you have been living under, or get with the program!"

Wow. You certainly are close minded. Yes I said it! You have no thoughts as to whether or not someone might think DIFFERENTLY than you? Oh, gee, I guess you are just "light years" ahead of the other people that love and cherish and adore their children. I wonder.... did your mother love you? Or did she feel miserable having brought such a self centered, blinded child into the world for all the rest of us to have to endure? Not everyone thinks alike. If you figure that out you might be better off in the world.

"I say good for Renee. She'll have kids when the time comes, and when that day does come, she'll be a good mom."

But it doesn't look like she wants kids! Why are you assuming she will have them?

I say good for Renee. She'll have kids when the time comes, and when that day does come, she'll be a good mom.

This is to 3:39 PM Anonymous: Being single, childless and independent IS what an empowered woman is all about! She shouldn't have to marry if she doesn't want to. There's certainly nothing wrong with not jumping into something, unless you want to. Just because you date one person, doesn't mean they're going to be the one you marry. She doesn't have to have children if she doesn't want too (not right now). There certainly ISN'T anything wrong with being independent. Being independent is a great security blessing for women. Why would I want to be in a marriage, and have a man take care of me? Women should KNOW how to take care of themselves. They should learn to work. Learn to be on their own. Expierence the REAL world. Having a man take care of you for the rest of your life shows how weak a woman can be. What if that marriage doesn't work out? You've never worked a day in your life, because your husband has always supported you. Having a family, being a wife, and taking care of the rest of the responsibilities in the house does not show true empowerment. That shows how women can be sheep. You can love your children, be a good wife, but STILL have your own life and be empowered to know if anything happens you'll be alright, because you know you can take care of yourself, and you can stand toe to toe with any hard situation that comes along in your life. There's certainly nothing wrong with not jumping into something, unless you want to. So why would I jump into marriage, have children, without expierencing life? Jumping into situations would make myself selfish for the rest of my life. I want to expierence life, than when I do settle down, I'll know it's the appropriate time, and I can be truly happy, and teach my children to be the same. This isn't the 1950's, get your head out of the sand.

3:38 PM Anonymous Says:

She is a good actor and seems nice but she epitomizes everything which is wrong in the feminist movement, i.e. the notion that being single, childless and independent is what an empowered woman is all about. Whereas in fact a woman's real power comes from her true calling of being primarily the nucleus and supportive mother and wife of a family.

RESPONSE: You have NO IDEA what the true calling of a woman should be! You must be one of those old-fashioned Christian women who thinks a wife's place is in the kitchen barefoot and pregnant. That's hardly empowering, and a comment like yours shows your ignorance. An empowered woman does what is best for her and not what people like you think she should do.

Lots of people have kids (and want them) who didn't plan them, 3:19 p.m. My youngest is a great example of that.

She should be bearding for Clooney right now. it's good to see a celeb be honest for once. Some people just don't want kids, okay? nothing wrong with that.

Nothing wrong with being an "old maid." What's the male equivalent of this expression? There ain't none!

She comes across as playing for the same team. Marriage? Boyfriends? It's all a cover-up.

I think she's over the moon about George. I think it's killing her that he's still with Sarah Larson. Poor Renee - she wants sooo much for it to happen. Did you see the shots of her yesterday when she was posing with George and Sarah? She looked half angry, half close to tears. She's been enjoying this promo trip almost deleriously.

To each his own. Why has America become so judgemental? Americans used to be more broad-minded, open-minded. They've gone all anal, man! It's not good.