Quotes About Fertility

A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey;A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.

He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth.

Thy belly is like a heap of wheat set about with lilies.

A land flowing with milk and honey.

Down there came a fallow doeAs great with young as she might go.

She said being able to give life was not something anyone should take for granted.

A friend of mine told me she's going to freeze her eggs, and I thought, 'Well, I also don't want to be a 55-year-old first time mother,' so you kind of just have to go with what happens.

At 18, I felt I was too young to think about having my eggs frozen.

You know, 'You should have frozen your eggs at 20.' Well, who's thinking about that at 20?

Max asked, 'Why death, do you think?' 'The Iroquois say that the world was too full, so the men and women got together, separately, to find an answer. The men came up with the idea of not having any more children. But the women refused to give up having babies. Death was their answer.' Max nodded. He took a deep breath. It felt like he hadn't breathed like that in month, maybe years.

The child chattered like a little magpie, and Angel nodded and listened. Glancing up, Angel encountered Michael's gaze. He wants children, she thought, and the thought hit her solid in the pit of her stomach. What if he knew she couldn't have them? Would his love for her die then? She couldn't hold his gaze.

Woman is thy field; go then to thy field and till it.

We tell infertile couples all the time that are having trouble conceiving because of the woman not ovulating, 'Just relax. Drink a glass of wine. And don't be so tense and uptight because all that adrenaline can cause you not to ovulate.'

The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood.

Oh, really. This saving-up business—I guess you think you're the only one who missed it. Huh?" "Well… You got a little pissy there for a while…." "Well, John, you told everyone it was ovulation day! You're going to have to learn to be a little more discreet in the future." "Anything

the fear of fertility

In 1908 a French archaeologist declared that a Great Goddess concerned with death and fertility had been worshipped by all the Neolithic peoples of Europe and the Near East, and that her cult had been focused above all on images of her eyes and breasts. This enabled him to use any figure or symbol on a Neolithic site which could be interpreted as representing an eye or a breast as proof of that cult.

There are several reasons secularization is accelerating. One generally overlooked cause springs from the fact that, for many centuries, a coherent set of pro-fertility norms* evolved in most countries that assigns women the role of producing as many children as possible and discourages divorce, abortion, homosexuality, contraception, and any other form of sexual behavior not linked with reproduction.

Until recently, natural selection helped impose pro-fertility norms. But a growing number of societies have attained high existential security, long life expectancy, and low infant mortality, making pro-fertility norms no longer necessary for societal survival and opening the way for a shift to individual-choice norms. Normally there is a substantial time lag between changing societal conditions and cultural change. The norms one grows up

A woman who spends her time worrying about pregnancy is a virtual cripple, she'll never go very far.

Life is like soil – it will always return a harvest. If you plant good seeds, you'll reap a bountiful harvest.

She knew women who couldn't keep their pregnancies and some who could never even get pregnant. They were treated poorly by their husbands, their own families, everyone around them. A woman had to get pregnant, had to give birth—it was part of being a woman, as natural as having breasts and a womb. A woman who never became a mother was incomplete. "Thank

In chaos, there is fertility.

Why do you think I've been trying my damnedest to get you pregnant? Baby, I've been hoping that I'd make a baby in you. I wanted a guarantee that you wouldn't walk out on me.