The word 'love,' used in connection with the reproduction of our species, is the most odious blasphemy taught in our times.

— Honoré de Balzac

What one exorcises in this [imagery] way at little cost, and for the price of a few tears, will never in effect be reproduced.

— Jean Baudrillard

Understanding the principles of reproduction is to multiply.

— Sunday Adelaja

...Everything that’s not asexual has two sexes, male and female. Most of the time it takes one of each to reproduce. Then there’s the whiptail lizard. This is a lizard that lives way the fuck out there in the middle of the desert, and sometimes it’s hard to find another lizard to mate with out there. Therefore, what the female whiptail can do is sort of make her eggs start dividing on their own. She makes daughters, clones of herself. It’s called parthenogenesis.

— Erin O'Riordan

Whatever I haven’t accomplished biologically obviously wasn't all that imperative.

— Alex Bosworth

Men marry for the womb. Women marry for their tummy.

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Yes, but nomes aren’t hard to make,” said Dorcas. “You just need other nomes.” “You’re weird.

— Terry Pratchett

Marriage is the commodification of affection, copulation, and, reproduction.

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A dying organism is often observed to be capable of extraordinary endurance and strength. ... When any living organism is attacked, its whole function seems to aim toward reproduction.

— John Steinbeck

Gabi to Marcus 'I can't believe out of one hundred thousand sperm, you were the fastest!

— Cherise Sinclair