Biology Quote by C.S. Lewis

“I suspect that the distinction between a maternal and a paternal instinct is scarcely worth making; the parental instinct, the wish to protect, to…

— Le Guin Ursula

“I have made this discovery: that it takes more love and self-sacrifice for the father to give up the son than it does for…

— D.L. Moody

“That is the flip side, you see, to laissez-faire parenting. It succeeds or not, throughout the animal kingdom as it does with humans, in…

— Cynthia Rogers Parks

“The parent who sedulously endeavors to form the heart and enlarge the understanding of his child has given that dignity to the discharge of…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“Parenthood is the magnanimity of the soul, not the mere outcome of a biological process. (Dr Abin. From TATTERED LOTUS)”

— Dr. Abin

Parental love is not contingent on the talents and attributes the child happens to have. We choose our friends and spouses at least partly…

— Anonymous

“Love is essential to the survival of human beings; it is the greatest spur there is to that driving impulse of every living creature:…

— Fran Cohen Praver

“Every human relationship begins with a coincidence. Even the most fundamental relationship - that of parent and child - begins entirely with a coincidence.…

— Zack Love

“By making the birth of the child the physical choice of the mother, the sexual revolution has made marriage and child support a social…

— George Akerlof

“universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts that simply do not make evolutionary sense.”

— Richard Dawkins

The very ingredients that nurture love - mutuality, reciprocity, protection, worry, responsibility for the other - are sometimes the very ingredients that stifle desire.

— Esther Perel

“Manufacturing offspring had damaged his female’s emotional system.”

— Cynthia Sax