“I was thinking recently about a phrase I’ve heard men say about their desire to have children in the future, and it occurred to me: I don’t think I’ve ever heard a woman say that,” Kendrick said. “And the thing they’ll say is, ‘Yeah, maybe one day – a couple of kids running around.’ I don’t think I’ve ever heard a woman say that. Because it paints a certain visual, yes?”

Kendrick describes that ‘certain visual’: “That you come home at the end of your workday, and you put down your proverbial briefcase, and you’re making yourself a cocktail, and a woman in a Laura Ashley dress is out in the yard, and there’s a couple of kids – in white! – running around.” She then rhetorically asks the men: “Um, where are you in that, sir?

“I don’t know, there’s something about that phrase that really starts to rub me the wrong way,” Kendrick continues. “It’s like when I hear husbands say they want to ‘help out’ with the kids. And it’s two working parents! And I always want to kind of say something, and then I’m just like, ‘Well, I’m the childless cat lady. I’m not gonna say shit.’”

Anna Kendrick opens up again about her choice not to have children