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Quotes About Reproduction

We teach what we know, but we reproduce what we are.
~ John C. Maxwell
If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in life is to pass on their genes to the next generation.
~ David Attenborough
If you can't control your reproduction, you can't control your life.
~ Joycelyn Elders
For me, the meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future.
~ Bill Nye
Reproduction is more pleasurable than death.
~ Herman E. Daly
In the end, the judge ruled that no woman has "the right to copulate with a feeling of security that there will be no resulting conception": if a woman isn't willing to die in childbirth, she shouldn't have sex. Sanger
~ Jill Lepore
I want to leave a better timeline behind, not just an open timeline but one where people who are not men can control the means of reproduction.
~ Annalee Newitz
The genetic arms race suggests that men want the drama of fast-track sex without personal consequences and that women take a longer view incorporating protracted parental commitment.
~ Anne Campbell
For most men, most of the time, monogamy is a safe compromise between the wild bonanza of polygyny (achievable only by an elite few) and the reproductive death of complete mating failure.
~ Anne Campbell
Too many women means that men are in a good market position to enforce their preferred reproductive strategy and that strategy is likely to be one that minimizes paternal investment in favor of maternal investment.
~ Anne Campbell
Over hundreds of thousands of years, extraverts and introverts have not differed in their average reproductive output (although they might have differed at any one time or place in our evolutionary history). We can conclude that, while there are personality differences, there is no one "personality" that is inherently more adaptively successful than any other.
~ Anne Campbell
Thousands of girls have climbed up stairs and knocked on a door answered by a woman who is a complete stranger, to whom they are about to entrust their stomach and womb. And that woman, the only person who can rid them of their misfortune, would open the door, in an apron and patterned slippers, clutching a dish towel, and inquire, "yes, miss, can i help you?
~ Annie Ernaux
Thousands of girls have climbed up stairs and knocked on a door answered by a woman who is a complete stranger, to whom they are about to entrust their stomach and their womb. And that woman, the only person who can rid them of their misfortune, would open the door, in an apron and patterned slippers, clutching a dish towel, and inquire, "Yes, Miss, can I help you?
~ Annie Ernaux
Is it live, or is it Memorex?
~ Anonymous
You need not fear my extinction. Fear my proliferation! I've already reproduced!
~ Lydia Millet
P?rea s? manifeste, pentru câteva scurte ore, o urm? din acea veche calitate de a înÈ›elege prea bine pentru a putea reproÈ™a - acea calitate care era cea mai bun? parte a lui È™i care lucrase rapid È™i f?r? încetare la distrugerea lui.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
The education system is an increasingly powerful mechanism for the intergenerational reproduction of privilege.
~ Fareed Zakaria
La verdad es que son precisamente los animales quienes sólo emplean el sexo para procrear
~ Fernando Savater
I am not in favor of making remakes.
~ Randhir Kapoor
God created the first man, whom he called Adam. Then God created a woman, whom ho named Eve; and this man and woman were given the power from Jehovah God to reproduce their kind, that is to say, to cause conception and birth of children.
~ Joseph Franklin Rutherford
As a social primate species, we modulate our morals with signals from family, friends and social groups with whom we identify because in our evolutionary past, those attributes helped individuals to survive and reproduce.
~ Michael Shermer
While producing a remake, one is sure of the success that it will have as the project has been tried and tested earlier.
~ Boney Kapoor
They will, on the one hand, have sex with just about anything that moves, given an easy chance, like males in a low-MPI species. On the other hand, when it comes to finding a female for a long-term joint venture, discretion makes sense; males can undertake only so many ventures over a lifetime, so the genes that the partner brings to the project—genes for robustness, brains, whatever—are worth scrutinizing. The
~ Robert Wright
Almost all of the cells in the human body are sterile. Only the sex cells—our "queen bees"—get to make copies of themselves for posterity. That the zillions of sterile cells act as if they were perfectly content with this arrangement is doubtless grounded in the fact that the r between them and the sex cells is 1;
~ Robert Wright