an archive of notable childfree women
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Lynn Fontaine
Actor
b. 1887 d. 1983
Dolly Parton
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b. 1946
“When I was a girl and fooling around I was scared to death I'd get pregnant, and then when I got married and wanted to have children I couldn't have any. But I don't miss it. I did for awhile, but I realize that I am everybody's mother”

Kamala Harris
United States Vice President
b. 1964
Donna Murphy
Actor b. 1959
“I sometimes like the situation that forces you to rely on your instinct and impulses.”
Naomi Campbell
Model
b. 1970

Meredith Monk
Composer
b. 1942
Tallulah Bankhead
Actor
b. 1902 d. 1968
Lola Falana
Singer
b. 1942

Esther Rolle
Actor
b. 1920 d. 1988
Barbara McNair
Singer
b. 1934 d. 2007
Edith Bouvier Beale
Performer
b. 1917 d. 2002
Allison Janney
Actor
b. 1959
Edith Wharton
Author
b. 1862 d. 1937
Lily Tomlin
Actor
b. 1939

Kay Thompson
Multi-Hyphenate
b. 1909 d. 1998
Stevie Nicks
Musician
b. 1948

Debbie Harry
Musician
b. 1945
Katherine Hepburn
Actor
b. 1907 d. 2003
Ann Magnuson
Actor
b. 1956
Georgia Engel
Actor
b. 1948 d. 2019