Hormones Quotes

“I sigh. "I don't know what's happening to me."
"They're called hormones."

I shoot him a dirty look. "I'm serious."

"Me too." He cocks his head at me. "That's like, biological and shit. Scientific. Maybe your lady bits are scientifically confused."

"My lady bits?"

"Oh, I'm sorry" - Kenji pretends to look offended - "would you rather I use the proper anatomical terminology? Because you lady bits do not scare me-"
"Yeah, no thanks.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“Oh I believe in loving cats and dogs and children and parents – sometimes – but I don’t believe in romantic love. Of course, there’s the momentary rush of hormones and chemicals that encourages us to mate, but it’s biology – it’s no more inherently mystical than the nicotine in that cigarette you’re smoking”
― Amy Jenkins

“I am often described to my irritation as a 'contrarian' and even had the title inflicted on me by the publisher of one of my early books. (At least on that occasion I lived up to the title by ridiculing the word in my introduction to the book's first chapter.) It is actually a pity that our culture doesn't have a good vernacular word for an oppositionist or even for someone who tries to do his own thinking: the word 'dissident' can't be self-conferred because it is really a title of honor that has to be won or earned, while terms like 'gadfly' or 'maverick' are somehow trivial and condescending as well as over-full of self-regard. And I've lost count of the number of memoirs by old comrades or ex-comrades that have titles like 'Against the Stream,' 'Against the Current,' 'Minority of One,' 'Breaking Ranks' and so forth—all of them lending point to Harold Rosenberg's withering remark about 'the herd of independent minds.' Even when I was quite young I disliked being called a 'rebel': it seemed to make the patronizing suggestion that 'questioning authority' was part of a 'phase' through which I would naturally go. On the contrary, I was a relatively well-behaved and well-mannered boy, and chose my battles with some deliberation rather than just thinking with my hormones.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

“There is a correlation between the number of days since a man last had sex, and, the number of things that he is willing to do for a woman.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Just as a heroin addict chases a substance-induced high, sex addicts are bingeing on chemicals — in this case, their own hormones.”
― Alexandra Katehakis

“You see, I'd behaved pretty badly. Losing my head about someone I didn't really love and hurting someone I did. Why is one so stupid?"

"The heart has its reasons," said Will, "and the endocrines have theirs.”
― Aldous Huxley, Island

“Why do you think, A.J.," they say in unison, "that you find these boys so attractive?"

I didn't say that this fiery chemical explosion leaps from somewhere inside me. Parents don't want to hear these things. I shrugged and said nothing.

"Maybe you should try sitting on the intensity," Mom suggests, "just until your feelings catch up with reality."

"We could chain you to the water heater," Dad offers, "until these little moments pass."

You see what I'm up against.”
― Joan Bauer

“I believe that love and forgiveness engages an incomprehensible healing force and sometimes true healing occurs, but always an emotional and spiritual healing happens.”
― Angeli Maun Akey

“You, me and testosterone!”
― Steven Magee

“The testosterone doctor told me I had good testosterone because I had a hairy chest!”
― Steven Magee

“Researchers have shown that the flooding of stress hormones resulting from a traumatic separation from your parents at a young age kills off so many dendrites and neurons in the brain that it results in permanent psychological and physical changes. One psychiatrist I went to told me that my brain looked like a tree without branches.

So I just think about all the children who have been separated from their parents, and there's a lot of us, past and present, and some under more traumatic circumstances than others--like those who are in internment camps right now--and I just imagine us as an army of mutants. We’ve all been touched by this monster, and our brains are forever changed, and we all have trees without branches in there, and what will happen to us? Who will we become? Who will take care of us?”
― Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, The Undocumented Americans

“Cognitive studies, aided by brain scanning, have revealed that men and women in fact use different parts of their brains in coping with various cognitive tasks. Furthermore, whereas the right and left hemispheres of a man's brain are much more specialized, those of won1en operate in greater co-operation, and the corpus callosum connecting them is larger. Not only are the bodies of women and men structured somewhat differently but also that particular organ of their bodies, the brain, and hence their minds.”
― Azar Gat, War in Human Civilization

“Cognitive studies, aided by brain scanning, have revealed that men and women in fact use different parts of their brains in coping with various cognitive tasks. Furthermore, whereas the right and left hemispheres of a man's brain are much more specialized, those of women operate in greater co-operation, and the corpus callosum connecting them is larger. Not only are the bodies of women and men structured somewhat differently but also that particular organ of their bodies, the brain, and hence their minds.”
― Azar Gat, War in Human Civilization

“You are my sex test pilot!”
― Steven Magee

“COVID damages testosterone levels and they can go much lower.”
― Steven Magee

“Biology creates males and females. Pollution creates infertility in them.”
― Steven Magee

“I am a hormonally challenged kind of guy.”
― Steven Magee

“Your hormones must be clouding your rational thoughts.'

'My hormones are always clouding my rational thoughts, thank you very much.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, From Blood and Ash

“Hormones for a healthy body; serotonin, endorphins, dopamine, oxytocin, and love.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Rep By Rep

“Rainbows mark the people that have not developed correctly.”
― Steven Magee

“Gender issues are an illness of the hormonal system.”
― Steven Magee

“Are you blaming my mood on my period?"
Zach's face flushed a deeper red. "I'm just saying you don't have to feel bad about it."
"I don't feel bad! And, also, I didn't have my period when I first got here. But even if I did, it's none of your business. Don’t ever blame a girl’s mood on her period. It's like saying her feelings aren’t real because hormones are taking over.”
― Debbi Michiko Florence, Sweet and Sour

“Darlene told me that the hormones women have in them when they've got PMS, men have in them all the time," says Myrna.

"That would account for world leaders," says Leonie.”
― Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories

“Chemical menopause is remarkably like Long COVID.”
― Steven Magee

“Love isn't a bad thing, you know. When you're attracted to someone, your brain releases dopamine, your serotonin levels increase, and oxytocin is produced. This happy hormone surge is great for healing.”
― Elle Jauffret, Threads of Deception: A Suddenly French Mystery

“PCOS isn’t a sentence — it’s an invitation to know yourself more deeply”
― Latora Crawford, Unstuck: How Women with PCOS Can Finally Lose Weight, Balance Hormones, and Feel in Control Again

“Foreign biochemists who adhere to metaphysical idealist concepts, ascribe to mythical immutable genes the role of governing metabolic processes which, properly speaking, constitute the characteristic feature of life. Soviet biology has counterposed to these idealist concepts, a real, scientifically consistent materialist explanation of vital processes based on concrete experimental data. Let me cite as an example only one tendency in these investigations, namely, the study of the primary role played in all these complex manifestations of life by special substances called enzymes. Along with vitamins and hormones they constitute the group of compounds which direct all the changes lying at the basis of metabolism in the living organism. Enzymes are the real keys to life. All component substances of the organism—phosphorous compounds, fats, carbon-hydrates, etc. — would be inactive if they were not influenced by enzymes. Without the digestive enzymes, starch would be converted into sugar not in ten minutes, as it is in our body, but in scores of months. Without respiratory enzymes, the organism would be doomed to death from asphyxiation even in an atmosphere of pure oxygen.”
― Oleg Pisarzhevsky, New paths of Soviet science: Notes on latest research of Soviet scientists

“This isn’t about masking symptoms, It’s about helping women listen to
their bodies, heal naturally, and embrace the vibrant health God designed for them.”
― Jennifer Pfleghaar, The Perimenopause Reset: 28 Days to Energize Your Body, Shed Weight, and Find Peace with God

“The mold she was dealing with produced zearalenone, which was affecting her hormones. The key to getting her to even be able to function was to start progesterone during the luteal phase. She was able to function enough to start the detox process and heal from the mold.”
― Jennifer Pfleghaar, The Perimenopause Reset: 28 Days to Energize Your Body, Shed Weight, and Find Peace with God

“Deep sleep is crucial for cellular repair, immune function, and reducing oxidative stress, which are key factors in healthy aging and longevity.”
― Jennifer Pfleghaar