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Quotes About Fertility

From one seed a whole handful: that was what it meant to say the bounty of the earth .
~ J.M. Coetzee
Well, what do you know, not only did it turn out her ovaries had a little spark left in them—the suckers might as well have exploded between her hip bones. When
~ J.R. Ward
The typical white American woman in 1800 gave birth seven times; by 1900, the average was down to 3.5.
~ Nancy Gibbs
'Fecundity' is an ugly word for an ugly subject. It is ugly, at least, in the eggy animal world. I don't think it is for plants.
~ Annie Dillard
I mourned as though I had miscarried. My body apparently was fertile soil, but my life was not.
~ Tayari Jones
Roy, I know that we had a choice, but really, we didn't have a choice. I mourned as though I had miscarried. My body apparently was fertile soil, but my life was not. You may feel that you're carrying a burden, but I shoulder a load as well. So now you know. We are bearing two different crosses.
~ Tayari Jones
females were the source of the vital principle that gave the offspring life, while males provided the basic form. Because of this division, neither sex could reproduce by itself.
~ Ted Chiang
If I could spit out a litter of kids, I would.
~ Blake Lively
Do men have a biological clock? I feel like I do. Something is definitely ticking!
~ Luke Wilson
Man begets, but land does not beget.
~ Cecil Rhodes
You might as well say that the woman lies on top of the man when they are making the babies.
~ Chinua Achebe
us—I looked at that beautiful snow-capped mountain and named it Eliza. Because it was warm, fertile, and beautiful below, while being a bit frosty and inaccessible at the top—yet possessing a volcanick profile foretelling explosions—
~ Neal Stephenson
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.
~ Neal Stephenson
Until that time, we have more than enough people to create healthy non-inbred children just by the usual process of fucking each other.
~ Neal Stephenson
Someday someone is going to find this pelvis sexy or I'll never have children.
~ Ned Vizzini
A lot of people have been asking me questions about IVF and surrogacy, and I'm glad that I can be a mouthpiece to that.
~ GloZell
One grows up thinking you will naturally be able to have children, and when it doesn't happen, it's a shock. But I just feel that it wasn't meant to be.
~ Pattie Boyd
She snapped out, Why is it that if there are many children, the man is potent, but if the marriage is childless, the woman is infertile?
~ Christina Dodd
Someday my child will grow right here." "You'd like that, would you? I might get as big as a house." Mikhail kissed her tummy again and then kissed the path to her breasts. "You will have milk for our babies. That is such a miracle, Raven." She heard the ache in his voice. The need. He didn't quite believe they would manage to have children, not when his people had been unable to do so for centuries, but he was willing to dream of it--with her.
~ Christine Feehan
Drool has sprouted an erection. Let's ask him what he's thinking about. Had his way with a knotted oak on the way here. A right spectacular tree-shagging it was, too. Knocked down enough acorns to feed the village for a week. They wanted to have a special feast day in honor of the git—declare him god of the tree-shag—more fertility symbols there than you can shake a stick at, innit?
~ Christopher Moore
They were standing at the top of a mountain, on a wide patch of flat land. Far below lay a vast swath of farmland, fields of green. Great rectangles of brown, newly tilled earth. "California," Ant said. Elsa had never seen land so beautiful. So fertile. So green. California. The Golden State.
~ Kristin Hannah
Snow is a poor substitute for soil
~ Kristin Hannah
Našao je zemlju izlaze?eg sunca pa je pšeni?no zrno, koje je neplodno, bacakano vetrom, najzad naišlo na grudu zemlje koja ?e ga primiti da uhvati koren i da se razvije.
~ Lafcadio Hearn
Fertility, sexuality, strength, and the ability to create and nurture life: These were the powers of women ... It was a ripening, yes, but not just for the purpose of bearing children, or being a wife. It represented a claiming of one's self...
~ Laini Taylor