Quotes About Reproduction

Another possibility is that evolution selected creativity in general as a marker of sexual fitness.

A woman came to ask the doctor if a woman should have children after thirty-five. I said, 'Thirty-five children is enough for any woman.'

We're living in a re-issue world, filching from the past like magpies with a Tardis.

Aristotele credeva che la regina non fosse una femmina ma un maschio, e dunque un re, e che le operaie si sviluppassero a partire da una sostanza progenitrice che gli adulti raccoglievano dai fiori e non da uova deposte dalla regina.

Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.

We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed...

As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.

Women are nothing but machines for producing children.

Other primates get on with their own reproduction relatively soon after weaning, with gorillas having their first baby just seven or so years later.

our genes' primary goal is not necessarily harmony between mates, but rather greater success for themselves.

The good thing about being a construct is that you can't reproduce and create children to argue with you.

The good thing about being a construct is that you can't reproduce and create children to argue with you.

In fact, it is not impossible that one day the sperm-less fertilization of eggs — based on triggering the genetic code present in any cell of the body — will become a reality.[131]

in all species for which information is available, once the sex of the fetus is determined, more males than females are aborted.[120]

In reality, all that is needed are a syringe and a few cubic centimeters of semen. Should current experiments with fertilizing eggs with DNA taken from other eggs be extended from mice to humans, soon we will not even need that. The fact that the necessary techniques were invented by men merely adds offense to injury. It is as if each time men try to help women along, men only make themselves more superfluous.

La homosexualidad, ejemplo flagrante de sexo no reproductor, se convirtió, junto a la masturbación, las relaciones premaritales, las prácticas anticonceptivas y el aborto, en blanco principal de las fuerzas pronatalistas.

Hindus and Westerners alike see in the meat-eating taboos of India a triumph of morals over appetite. This is a dangerous misrepresentation of cultural processes. Hindu vegetarianism was a victory not of spirit over matter but of reproductive over productive forces.

Los hombres nunca han tenido que poner en un plato de la balanza el placer sexual y en el otro la dolorosa prueba en que culmina el embarazo.

Sex is not about reproduc-tion, gender is not about males and females, courtship is not aboutpersuasion, fashion is not about beauty, and love is not about affec-tion. Below the surface of every banality and cliche there lies irony,cynicism, and profundity.

people are attracted to people of high reproductive and genetic potential—the healthy, the fit, and the powerful.

Ancient and modern languages teem with happily expressed sentiments of more or less force and beauty, sufficiently individualized and excellent to warrant their reproduction and classification.

The Wesen is sense of radiation, connected to materials, ingraspable outside of the fact or outside of existence. It is the way in which a whole is produced and reproduced, inseparable from this production. (verbal) Wesen

We live in an age of reproduction. Most of what makes up our personal picture of the world we have never seen with our own eyes--or rather, we've seen it with our own eyes, but not on the spot: our knowledge comes to us from a distance, we are televiewers, telehearers, teleknowers.

Please," he says after he's swallowed. "It's bad enough that the middle-aged are having sex, without thinking of my aunt doing it. And I don't know why someone just doesn't tell Sam to use a condom instead of impregnating the women of the inner-west." Georgie stares at him, stunned, and then she bursts out laughing. "Middle-aged? What a little dickhead," Lucia says.