The Longest Shortest Time - Terry Gross on Not Having Kids
The Fresh Air host talks kids & her recurring nightmare
The Longest Shortest Time - Terry Gross on Not Having Kids launched on April 20, 2016 with 65 votes, #959 of 4,301 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 10 years on.
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Public radio icon Terry Gross talks about why she chose to never have children. And her recurring nightmare about a baby.
Terry has been hosting NPR’s Fresh Air for over 40 years—longer than I’ve been alive. She got her start in radio at a show out of WBFO in Buffalo called Womanpower . There she is below (3rd from left), along with the rest of the staff. Back then, not too many women had jobs in radio. And the way Terry saw it, she had to pick either motherhood or her career. She went with career. Having watched her own mother not have much of a life outside of her family, it felt to Terry like the obvious choice. Tune in to this episode to hear this public radio icon talk about her decision to not have children, and how she sees herself as a feminist pioneer who paved the way for women to have…from longestshortesttime.com
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