Quotes About Fertility

The hormonal imbalance is actually fertility. Fertility is the change. That's when a woman loses herself.

But if the history of women's reproductive health demonstrates anything, it is that coercive policies are not only inhumane and unethical, they also fail to work, have extremely undesirable consequences—the neglect of Chinese infant girls is only one of the more drastic examples—and in the long run tend to discredit voluntary birth control programs, making people deeply suspicious of the entire movement to control fertility.

After all, the rich get richer and the poor get children. Which is okay so long as lots of them starve in infancy.

Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.

Imagination is so much more fertile than life.

Questo distratto inseminare dei maschi, storditi dal piacere. Ci fecondano sopraffatti dal loro orgasmo. Si affacciano dentro di noi e si ritraggono lasciandoci, celato nella carne, il loro fantasma come un oggetto smarrito.

Questo distratto inseminare dei maschi, storditi dal piacere. Ci fecondano sopraffatti dal loro orgasmo. Si affacciano dentro di noi e si ritraggono lasciandoci, celato nella carne, il loro fantasma come un oggetto smarrito. Albertino era figlio della volontà, dell'attenzione? O anche lui era in braccio a questa donna-madre senza che Nino sentisse di averci a che fare?

If a queen bee were crossed with a Friesian bull, would not the land flow with milk and honey?

I've got a fondness for rabbits.

Dagon was simply one more of the pagan fertility deities; in Phoenicia his name was connected with the word dagan, meaning "corn," though this name finally derived from a Semitic root meaning "fish.

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Up until 1400BC, citadel settlements are stable. Goddesses - notably in charge of fertility and learning - have a crucial role to play. But as civilisation gets greedy and society more militaristic, these wise women are edged to the sidelines in favour of a thundering, male warrior god.

Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.

Women of child-bearing age steadily run out of eggs by the continuous process of cell death. While reading a copy of the 'Guardian' carefully from cover to cover, a normal woman will have lost on average two eggs - while, typically, a normal man will have made 70,000 new sperm.

The simple, stupefying truth that, as a woman, I am a minute ocean, in the dark tropic of whose womb eggs lay coded as roe, floating in the sea that wet-nursed us all, moved me deeply.

In my late 30s, I flirted with the idea of having a child without necessarily being in a steady relationship. But I've never had a strong maternal urge, and then I got cancer of the womb - luckily caught at an early stage - so that put paid to that.

When she stepped out of that spumy sea Aphrodite was said to have brought fertility, flowers, life, light to a barren world. For centuries women and men went to her sanctuaries to seek her pity and protection. Her domain was originally not just lust, but lust for life.

The Malthusian Theory - that mankind, for biological and sociological reasons, is so fertile, so fecund, that if you started out with the new continent and plenty of land for everybody, in several generations we would multiply our numbers.

The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

Thinking about women who can't have their own baby, even the first baby, I'm really lucky.

World fertility surveys indicate that anywhere from one third to one half of the babies born in the Third World would not be if their mothers had access to cheap, reliable family planning, had enough personal empowerment to stand up to their husbands and relatives, and could choose their own family size.

Women have to control their fertility for 30 years. Thirty years is a long time not to make mistakes.

until the moon had waxed fat and thinned, and again grown heavy with the child of night,

La maldición del vientre de las pobres: la fecundidad.