Quote by Richard Dawkins

“Fathers are essentially different from mothers because we were all once in our mother's bodies, are born out of those bodies, and as infants…

— Siri Hustvedt

“A child born of this method would have no biological father.” “True, but the father’s biological contribution is of minimal importance here. The mother…

— Ted Chiang

“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 believe babies are born as innovative personalities... But our social processes work to stamp out exploration and questioning.

— Jay Wright Forrester

If two very different people pool their DNA, they'll create more genetic variety, and their young will come to the job of parenting with…

— Helen Fisher

Darwin and his successors have railed against the fallacy of confusing the current utility of a trait with the reason the trait evolved. For…

— Elliott Sober

I have the happiest, most confident babies, and I know it's because they feel that strong love from their parents.

— Jessie James Decker

“Distinctive facial features of a parent are poor people’s paternity test.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“If we were created from the very fiber of our birth parents' physical and emotional beings, don't you think our need to think about…

— Sherrie Eldridge

The nature of the infant is not just a new permutation-and-combination of elements contained in the natures of the parents. There is in the…

— D. H. Lawrence

A lot of the women that I treat will tell me that when they talk to their siblings or mothers they very often have…

— Laura Berman

I've said it before - and I'll say it again: it always seems to me that we come to know our same-sex parents through…

— Will Self