Whatever I haven’t accomplished biologically obviously wasn’t all that imperative.

Youth was the time for happiness, its only season; young people, leading a lazy, carefree life, partially occupied by scarcely absorbing studies, were able to devote themselves unlimitedly to the liberated exultation of their bodies....

Conception is not some genteel, quiet pastime; it’s a fierce and unforgiving team sport.

Most of the psychological differences between men and women seem to come from differences in their reproductive system

Our immediate interests are after all of but small moment. It is what we do for the future, what we add to the sum of man’s knowledge, that counts most. As someone has said, ‘The...

There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women’s bodies by men. The woman’s body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected.

Reproduction is more pleasurable than death.

This lesser world is all about reproduction, as you might well know. Those who cease to duplicate simply die.

I’m feeling full of tiny princes, bustling to get out into the world and start plotting against one another.

First LawIn every animal which has not passed the limit of its development, a more frequent and continuous use of any organ gradually strengthens, develops and enlarges that organ, and gives it a power proportional...

Then if children make so much trouble, why do people have ’em?

Kujamiiana si anasa tena katika maisha yangu. Ni hitaji muhimu kwa ujenzi wa familia.

It is not always the magnitude of the differences observed between species that must determine specific distinctions, but the constant preservation of those differences in reproduction.

Art, as I see it, is any human activity which doesn’t grow out of either of our species’ two basic instincts: survival and reproduction.

The problem of the survival of humanity is not a matter of ensuring the birth of future generations but of limiting it. The immediate danger to humanity is that of total annihilation within a generation...

Memory loss is the key to human reproduction. If you remembered what new parenthood was actually like you wouldn’t go around lying to people about how wonderful it is, and you certainly wouldn’t ever do...

when we will unmake this world in which we are battered between long burden and brief delight, and will live in pleasure for all our days.” The belief in the possibility of long-lasting, high-flown pleasures...

How low-or how high, rather?

A dying organism is often observed to be capable of extraordinary endurance and strength. … When any living organism is attacked, its whole function seems to aim toward reproduction.

You’re weird.

Gabi to Marcus “I can’t believe out of one hundred thousand sperm, you were the fastest!

A picture of a complete apple tree, however accurate, is in a certain sense much less like the tree itself than is a little daisy.

The word ‘love,’ used in connection with the reproduction of our species, is the most odious blasphemy taught in our times.

Homophobia is the ignorant and arrogant assumption that copulation and reproduction is all there is to a relationship.

They just don’t make them like they used to.” Well, except for kids. People still make children the way they always have, though I am working on a product that’ll make the process 100% more...

Men marry for the womb. Women marry for their tummy.

I’m like Casanova meets Henry Ford. My reproduction methods are more like production methods one might see in a factory, complete with conveyer belts, mechanical assistance, and cheap labor.

Marriage is the commodification of affection, copulation, and, reproduction.

The best part about having kids is not actually having to have kids. Thank you, women.