Quotes About Reproduction

For each chromosome contributed by the sperm there is a corresponding chromosome contributed by the egg, there are two chromosomes of each kind, which together constitute a pair.

Man comes not from an egg but from an animalcule that is found in male sperm.

Every marriage is a battle between two families struggling to reproduce themselves.

Marriage is the commodification of affection, copulation, and, reproduction.

If you take men and lock them in a house for five years and tell them to come up with two children and they fail to do that, then we will chop off their heads.

A bird is an instrument working according to mathematical law, which instrument it is within the capacity of man to reproduce with all its movements.

The only reason no one ever did it with humans is because it seemed ethically dodgy, as well as completely unnecessary given the willingness of men to impregnate women every chance they got.

From an evolution standpoint, what was the point of having people around who were not inclined to have offspring? There must be some good, and fairly subtle, reason for it. The only thing he could work out was that it was groups of people—societies—rather than individual creatures, who were now trying to out-reproduce and/or kill each other, and that, in a society, there was plenty of room for someone who didn't have kids as long as he was up to something useful.

Ivy said, "Had we known that it was going to come down, so suddenly, to seven surviving fertile women, we would have had every healthy male masturbating into test tubes for the last three years. We'd have looked for ways to keep it all frozen. But we never imagined it would come to this.

Until that time, we have more than enough people to create healthy non-inbred children just by the usual process of fucking each other.

Over the fireplace, he has a reproduction of Rubens' Rape of the Sabine Women." I added, in case Mr. Mancuso wasn't familiar with the classical tale, "The Romans raped the women of the Sabine tribe.

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Didn't he know that heterosexuals needed to breed so homosexuals could even exist?

If anyone's interested in the alleviation of poverty... the only thing we know definitely works is giving women control over their own reproduction

Have a lived life instead of a career. Put yourself in the safekeeping of good taste. Lived freedom will compensate you for a few losses. . . . If you don't like the style of others, cultivate your own. Get to know the tricks of reproduction, be a self-publisher even in conversation, and then the joy of working can fill your days.

Every society reproduces its culture, its norms, its underlying assumptions, its modes of organizing experience— in the individual, in the form of personality.

Oh, sweetie, I'm sorry, you can't have a baby brother, because that would mean that Daddy had sex, and that's never going to happen again.

The rest is just sex, copulation, the perpetuation of the vile species.

Machines, he said, are an effect of art, which is nature's ape, and they reproduce not its forms but the operation itself.

Kitaplardaki tekboynuzlu t?pk? bir bask? gibidir. E?er bask? varsa, bask?s? yap?lan bir ?eyin var olmu? olmas? gerekir.

Lanny danced with light feet but a heavy heart; having created patterns in times of joy, he could reproduce them in times of sorrow.

By characterizing women as vessels of reproduction, physicians contributed to a discourse that interpreted the individual body as a sing of the health (or illness) of the social body.

They shall exist, and so long as society shall be what it is, they will be what they are. Under the dark vault of their cave, they are forever reproduced in the ooze. What is required to exorcise these goblins? Light. Light in floods. No bat resists the dawn. Illuminate society.

The worms were beautifully drawn, with their nervous systems and reproductive organs shaded in different colors of highlighter, but the artist had also given them big goofy smiling faces. Grotesque but lovable in a cross-eyed way.