Cells Quote by John Shelby Spong

“In the unfertilised egg not even the concept of femaleness is as yet established. As Hegel justly remarks the sexual relation cannot be referred…

— Simone de Beauvoir

Women ... are completely alone, though they were born and bred upon this soil, as if they belonged to another class in creation.

— Herbert Croly

It struck me what we should be trying to do was pluck the egg from the ovary and fertilise it in the laboratory. We…

— Robert Edwards

“When an experiment was to begin, all women were excluded for fear their irrational natures would influence the result, and an air of fervent…

— Iain Pears

Long historical books get written by women, but not contemporary experiments, which still seems to be a very male-dominated field.

— Eleanor Catton

In Old Europe and Ancient Crete, women were respected for their roles in the discovery of agriculture and for inventing the arts of weaving…

— Carol P. Christ

In the beginning, the feminine principle was seen as the fundamental cosmic force. All ancient peoples believed that the world was created by a…

— Judy Chicago

In becoming archaeologists of the world of our mothers, we are trying to retrieve the female past and to invent a future.

— Louise Bernikow

Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.

— Voltaire

We were alive during the 'Battle of the Sexes', but that story hadn't really been told.

— Valerie Faris

“Women brought life but the most important origin stories spoke the real truth, which was that women more often brought death.”

— Nnedi Okorafor

It's an old trick now, God knows, but it works every time. At the very moment women start to expand their place in the…

— Anonymous