Sterility Quotes

“The important task of literature is to free man, not to censor him, and that is why Puritanism was the most destructive and evil force which ever oppressed people and their literature: it created hypocrisy, perversion, fears, sterility.”
― Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 4: 1944-1947

“Great potential for emotional balance and mental flexibility can help us fight the bleakness and sterility of a statistical matrix that clashes with our inner compass's needs. ("What after bowling alone?" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Why children?' he asked. 'Why always children? For love to end where it begins is far more beautiful, and Nature knows it.”
― E.M. Forster, Maurice

“Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust.”
― Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories

“She says, "Do you have any rubbers?" I say, I thought she was barren. "Sure, I'm sterile," she says, "but I've had unprotected sex with a million guys. I could have some terrible fatal disease." I say that would only be a problem if I wanted to live a lot longer. Fertility says, " That's how I feel about my giant credit card debt." So we have sex. If you could call it that.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

“His sterility was infinite: it partook of ecstasy.”
― Emil Cioran, The New Gods

“Few chemicals confer maleness, but many take it away. Which, if any, are responsible for our own troubles is hard to say.

The Pill changed men's lives in more ways than one. It caused reproductive hormones to leak into tap water and has been blamed both for the sex changes in freshwater fish and for the drop in our own sperm count. The jury is still out on the issue, but other hormones have had a disastrous effect. A drug called diethylstilbestrol was once thought - in error - to prevent miscarriage. Five million mothers took it and for a time it was even used as a chicken food supplement. A third of the boys exposed to the drug in the womb suffer from small testes or a reduced penis. In rats, the chemical causes prostate and testicular cancer (although there is as yet no sign of those problems in ourselves).
To give a powerful steroid to pregnant women was at best unwise, but the effects of other chemicals were harder to foresee. The 1950s saw a wonderful new chemical treatment for banana pests. Soon the substance was much used. Twenty years later the workers noticed something odd: they had almost no children. Their sperm count had dropped by five hundred times.”
― Steve Jones, Y: The Descent of Men

“Slavish conformity to traditions and formulas fetters the expression of individuality.”
― Kakuzō Okakura, The Book of Tea

“All utopias are depressing because they leave no room for chance, for difference, for the 'miscellaneous'.”
― Georges Perec, Brief Notes on the Art and Manner of Arranging One's Books

“The natural cure for sterility is a natural diet along with a home toxin detox.”
― Nancy S. Mure, EAT! Empower Adjust Triumph!

“In one of his novels about a sterile and painful relationship, Aldous Huxley uses the expression, "the love of the parallels"--that hopeless love between two parallel lines which stretch out simultaneously but can never meet.”
― Isak Dinesen, Daguerreotypes and Other Essays

“I think one of the biggest plagues of modern life is sterility. People are becoming sick, because they're too sterile. They live in too sterile a world. They don't touch living organisms, so they have no immunity to nature. And you can't live separate from nature.”
― Geoff Lawton

“Back in the day, it was either both a mother and her daughter had pubic hair, or the daughter didn’t. Today, in many a case, the mother is the one who doesn’t.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“A bad economy is not enough reason for one to resort to crime. If the economy of a country is not working, at least every sane individual in that country owns a brain that works.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Sips And Little Portions