Shakira Quotes

The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.

One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of the union.

I tried immediately to have a baby because I was so afraid not to have a baby in my life.

Personally, I'd like as many children as I can pop out, I reckon.

We support reproductive rights and will stand with women and men around the country to support keeping abortion and birth control safe, legal and accessible.

I don’t know why anybody would reproduce in that damn country [India] but they do.

What's happened with the over-the-counter birth control issue is that the Democrats didn't see it coming. They think that they've got a monopoly on talking to women from the waist down. Anything that has to do with reproduction and birth control and abortion - they call it women's health, then they call it women's issues.

The abortion controversy is important for what it says about our stance toward procreation and children altogether.

I don't see any reason why I couldn't have a child when I'm 40.

I like trying to get pregnant, I'm not so sure about childbirth.

Fertility is measured by offspring, not by honours.

If the Democrats want to insult women by making them believe that they are helpless without Uncle Sugar coming in and providing for them a prescription each month for birth control because they cannot control their libido or their reproductive system without the help of the government, then so be it.

I've never in my life said I didn't want to have children. I did and I do and I will!

Libido is a normal part of being human. Nothing scandalous about it. But without it, in either women or men, would there be a demand for birth control?

Planned Parenthood has a right to operate. Planned Parenthood has a right to provide family planning services. Planned parenthood has a right to perform abortions.

I think it's the most responsible thing you can do, to have kids. It's not something to be taken lightly. I don't have that gene that people have to replicate.

Money is a tremendous advantage in just about everything, but in terms of reproduction, if you're a poor woman and you are infertile, it's like too bad, so sad. And if you are a wealthy woman, you can kind of buy whatever you want.

Right now women are using surrogates because they can't be pregnant. What worries me is the possibility that soon they'll use surrogates because they don't want to be pregnant.

A young woman in her teens has about 300,000 eggs in her ovaries. By the time she is menopausal, none are left.

It is the patriotic duty of women to bear four children.

35 percent of U. S. births in the last 5 years were the result of unintended pregnancies …. That’s no surprise given recent efforts to reduce access to birth control, sex education, and abortion in this country.

Choice is a uniquely female issue. We don't share the same reproductive systems.

We call upon Southern Baptists to work for legislation that will allow the possibility of abortion under such conditions as rape, incest, clear evidence of severe fetal deformity, and carefully ascertained evidence of the likelihood of damage to the emotional, mental, and physical health of the mother

…American women… have learned it should be for them to decide when and how often they shall take upon themselves the sacred duties of motherhood, but as law and custom give to the husband absolute control of the wife’s person, she is forced to not only violate physical law, but to outrage the holiest instincts of her being to maintain even a semblance of that freedom which by nature belongs to every human soul.

… men never think, at least seldom think, what a hard task it is for us women to go through this [childbirth] very often. God's will be done, and if He decrees that we are to have a great number of children, why we must try to bring them up as useful and exemplary members of society.