an archive of notable childfree women
PEERAGE
Beatrice Bruteau
Author
b. 1930 d. 2014
Renee Zellweger
Actor b. 1969
"Motherhood has never been an ambition. I don't think like that. I never have expectations like 'when I'm 19 I'm going to do this, and by the time I've hit 25 I'm going to do that'. I just take things as they come, each day at a time."
Anita Loos
Screenwriter
b. 1889 d. 1981
Diane Sawyer
Journalist
b. 1945
Jacqueline Bissett
Actor
b. 1944
Anjelica Huston
Actor
b. 1951
Lee Krasner
Artist
b. 1908 d. 1984
Simone de Beauvoir
Author
b. 1908 d. 1986
“The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.”
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