Female Biology Quotes

Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.

A woman can produce what no man can: a child.

Precisely what menstruation is, is not yet very well known.

Something happens to a woman when she can't reproduce. I've not had to walk that path, but I can only imagine when your organs don't work and how that could make you feel.

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

Pregnancy demonstrates the deterministic character of woman's sexuality.

The female biologically [has] more potential to show affection and compassion.

Particularly women need to pay attention to what is unique to their own personal biology and emotional systems, and not deny it.

All the things that are taboo are the things that are not normal, and all the things that are not normal are the things that are exclusively about physically being a woman.

I want women to understand that the most beautiful thing a woman's body does is to grow other human beings.

But truly, women are amazing. Think about it this way: a woman can grow a baby inside her body. Then a woman can deliver the baby through her body. Then, by some miracle, a woman can feed a baby with her body. When you compare that to the male’s contribution to life, it’s kind of embarrassing, really.

I don't think 'Motherhood' is a map for women. I would never say that it's a template for every woman in response to her biology.

It is during fertility that a female loses herself and enters that cloud overly rich in estrogen.

I really like being pregnant. Not that there aren't things I don't love, but when I think about what my body is doing - creating a child - it just blows my mind. I'm in awe of the process and science.

the recurrent drama of menstrual bleeding must have been unnerving to primitive peoples. In man, the shedding of blood is always associated with injury, disease, or death. Only the female half of humanity was seen to have the magical ability to bleed profusely and still rise phoenix-like each month from the gore.

There's a lot involved in going to the bathroom for women.

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.