Meg Cabot Quotes

Our entire personality, our energy level, and how we cope is hormonal.

I would cite your little screed (which I am sure you are now sorry for) as a typical example of an ordinarily controlled woman under the raging hormonal imbalance of the periodic lunar cycle – thus proving the point against which you rail.

There's estrogen running through my veins!

Hormones are nature's three bottles of beer.

If you are having the experience of anxiety, your body is making adrenaline and cortisone, if you are having the experience of tranquility, your body starts making valium, if you are having the experience of exhilaration and joy, your body makes interleukins and interferons which are powerful anti-cancer drugs. So, your body is constantly converting your experiences into molecules.

What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.

Hormones get no respect. We think of them as the elusive chemicals that make us a bit moody, but these magical little molecules do so much more.

In 1974 I nearly got into a fistfight with some early academic feminists in a restaurant when I casually alluded to a hormonal element in sex differences. It was utterly unacceptable at that time to think or say such a thing... If you have any doubts about the effect of hormones on emotion, libido and aggression, have a chat with a transexual, who must take hormones medically. He or she will set you straight.

Even a woman of abnormal will cannot escape her hormonal identity.

The ductless glands secrete among other things our moods, our aspirations, our philosophy of life.

Saliva has testosterone and estrogen. When you kiss, you're having a chemical experience.

If you skew the endocrine system, you lose the pathways to self. When endocrine patterns change, it alters the way you think and feel. One shift in the pattern tends to trip another.

Adrenaline is an amazing thing.

Adrenaline is so strong that none of us understand it.

There are amazing acne treatments and creams out there, but sometimes we're just hormonal, and there is nothing we can do about our 'friends' showing up out of nowhere.

If your body produces testosterone naturally, fine. Mine doesn't.

Chemically, if you are not happy, your body will not look or be happy.

Any drug that alters a female's hormonal composition is a big deal. I have written about my journey with hormonal concoctions, and I assure you that they are nothing to be taken lightly.

The testosterone levels of a normal male can be anywhere from 300-1,000 nanograms. For the average female, it's 10-70. Mine is around 7.

Are you getting your period?" She narrows her eyes. No! God. I hate that. I hate when every negative act is blamed on your period." Sometimes bitchiness is just bitchiness, happily unattached to anything hormonal. It should get full credit.

Gotta love alcohol and sex hormones.

Women are affected by lunar tides only once a month; men have raging hormones every day.

This estrogen force field needs to dissipate... Move along. All of you. Now!

Because of his hormones, he only has three emotions: crabby, hungry, horny.

I'm really big on hormones.