Quotes About Reproduction

One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of the union.

The social relations which are the basis of the reproduction of the species are founded upon the continuous union of parents in marriage.

Upon the union of the male germ cell with the female egg cell, a new cell is created which almost immediately splits into two parts. One of these grows rapidly, creating the human body of the individual with all its organs, and dies only with the individual.

The egg of every species of animal or plant carries a definite number of bodies called chromosomes. The sperm carries the same number. Consequently, when the sperm unites with the egg, the fertilized egg will contain the double number of chromosomes.

Poems - crystallizations of the universal play of analogy, transparent objects which, as they reproduce the mechanism and the rotary motion of analogy, are waterspouts of new analogies.

Women won't have total equality until men can get pregnant.

Sexism is not inevitable. It's only about controlling reproduction and therefore controlling women.

If you get three women and a dog together and they all mate together they're not gonna have a baby

Aging is fraught with difficulties, most particularly for women who have been socialized to think of youth as beauty and the female role as reproduction.

Most of your life after puberty, you're either seeking to reproduce or living with the consequences of having done so. At 70, you start going back to being 11 again.

As for procreation, no one in his right mind would say that it is the only activity devoid of a praiseworthy incentive. Those who reproduce, then, should not feel unfairly culled as the worst conspirators against the human race. Every one of us is culpable in keeping the conspiracy alive, which is all right with most people.

Best to immunize your consciousness from any thoughts that are startling and dreadful so that we can all go on conspiring to survive and reproduce as paradoxical beings—puppets that can walk and talk all by themselves. At worst keep your startling and dreadful thoughts to yourself. Hearken well: "None of us wants to hear spoken the exact anxieties we keep locked up inside ourselves. Smother that urge to go spreading news of your pain and nightmares around town.

We, as licensed protectors of the species and members in good standing of the master-class of the race, by the power invested in us by those who wish to survive and reproduce, vow to enforce the fiction that life is worth having and worth living come hell or irreparable brain damage.

For the rest of the earth's organisms, existence is relatively uncomplicated. Their lives are about three things: survival, reproduction, death—and nothing else.

Optimism has always been an undeclared policy of human culture—one that grew out of our animal instincts to survive and reproduce—rather than an articulated body of thought.

For other organisms, bumbling along from here to nowhere is well managed. For us, it is a messy business and often intolerably horrific. To end all this paradox and horror [...] we must cease reproducing. Nothing less will do.

For us, then, life is a confidence trick we must run on ourselves, hoping we do not catch on to any monkey business that would leave us stripped of our defense mechanisms and standing stark naked before the silent, staring void. To end this self-deception, to free our species of the paradoxical imperative to be and not to be conscious, our backs breaking by degrees upon a wheel of lies, we must cease reproducing. Nothing less will do.

The subjective mind is entirely under the control of the objective mind. With the utmost fidelity it reproduces and works out to its final consequences whatever the objective mind impresses upon it.

Stats are stats but if you want to be sure you're going to have, say, three children with no problems, you should start at around 23.

The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along.

One of the best things people could do for their descendents would be to sharply limit the number of them.

La sexualidad es animal; el erotismo es humano.... Y que consiste, esencialmente, en desviar o cambiar el impulso sexual reproductor y transformarlo en una representación. El amor... es una ceremonia y representación... una purificación..que transforma al sujeto y al objeto del encuentro erótico en personas únicas. El amor es la metáfora final de la sexualidad.

Sorprendido por el nuevo instrumento e irritado por sus poderes de reproducción inmediata, el poeta olvidaba que detrás de la lente fotográfica hay un hombre: una sensibilidad y una fantasía. Un punto de vista.

Fifteen-year-old females don't have to have their parents' consent to volunteer to be colonists. We're the ideal age for reproduction, and are assumed to be dumb enough to volunteer.