Hormones Quotes - Page 5

• Love is indeed at root the product of the firings of neurons and release of hormones.

  Julian Baggini

  Love Is, Roots, Neurons

  "Philosophy V Science: Which Can Answer the Big Questions of Life?" by Julian Baggini and Lawrence Krauss, www.theguardian.com. September 09, 2012.

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• For me, food is all about balance. If you eat plenty of fruits, vegetables, and an appropriate amount of poultry, fish, and red meat that are sourced from good places, you're doing well. It's important to make sure that the meat you're consuming is hormone-free.

  Curtis Stone

  Vegetables, Balance, Important

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• When the subtle physical body is damaged you will begin to notice changes in your skin, you skin starts to get gnarly or dry. I'm not speaking of acne. Acne means you have a lot of kundalini, which stimulates hormones.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Gnarly, Skins

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• I told the truth about steroids and human growth hormone. I injected those drugs into the body of Roger Clemens at his direction.
  Unfortunately, Roger has denied this and has led a full-court attack on my credibility

  Jim Lehrer

  Growth Hormones, Drug, Body

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• Pierce Brosnan is a very sweet man. Oh, we had our issues, but a lot of it was hormones.

  Stephanie Zimbalist

  Sweet, Men, Issues

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• Medications can lower a woman's sex drive and interfere with a woman's ability to climax. These medications include antidepressants, birth control pills and hormone medications. I only know of three antidepressants that do not interfere with a woman's sexual function.

  Drew Pinsky

  Sex, Pills, Three

  "Dissatisfied, ladies? Tips to reach the Big O". TODAY interview, www.today.com. November 2, 2007.

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• The curse of modern times is the propensity of male hormones in places where they can do the most damage

  Robert James Waller

  Males, Damage, Modern

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• What good men most biologists are, the tenors of the scientific world - temperamental, moody, lecherous, loud-laughing, and healthy. Your true biologist will sing you a song as loud and off-key as will a blacksmith, for he knows that morals are too often diagnostic of prostatitis and stomach ulcers. Sometimes he may proliferate a little too much in all directions, but he is as easy to kill as any other organism, and meanwhile he is very good company, and at least he does not confuse a low hormone productivity with moral ethics.

  John Steinbeck

  Song, Men, Keys

  "The Log from the Sea of Cortez". Book by John Steinbeck. Chapter 4, 1951.

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• The only and absolute perfect union of two is when a baby hangs suspended in its mother's womb, like a tiny madman in a padded cell, attached to her, feeling her blood and hormones, and moods play through its body, feeling her feelings.

  Diane Ackerman

  Mother, Baby, Cells

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses”, p.98, Vintage

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• In 1974 I nearly got into a fistfight with some early academic feminists in a restaurant when I casually alluded to a hormonal element in sex differences. It was utterly unacceptable at that time to think or say such a thing... If you have any doubts about the effect of hormones on emotion, libido and aggression, have a chat with a transexual, who must take hormones medically. He or she will set you straight.

  Camille Paglia

  Sex, Thinking, Differences

  "Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders: Academe in the Hour of the Wolf". Camille Paglia, "Arion", Third Series, Volume 1, No. 2, Spring 1991.

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• Oh, love is very much a physical thing.... I realize that it's very complicated, and I'm sure it can't be traced to individual neurons and hormones, but I think it's very much a physiological sensation that takes place in the brain.

  Alan Lightman

  Love Is, Thinking, Brain

  Alan Lightman (2007). “Ghost: A Novel”, p.181, Vintage

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• When birth control pills were available in Europe but not in the United States, American women created an uproar about how the unwillingness to make the pill available showed a contempt for the lives of women. When the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released birth control pills with high dosages of hormones that were later found to be unnecessarily high, they were attacked for not caring about women enough to do the necessary tests.

  Warren Farrell

  Caring, Europe, Fda

  "The Myth of Male Power". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

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• If men went through menopause, we'd know everything about it, but we still don't even know if we should be taking hormones.

  Joycelyn Elders

  Men, Should, Stills

  "Dr. Joycelyn Elders is so fucking cool" by Kate Harding, feministing.com. June 03, 2007.

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• When you're sixteen and struggling to forge an identity out of a morass of hormones and daydreams, remarks like that cut a deep groove in the brain. I trace the ongoing, victorious-feeling semi-starvation of my twenties directly back to adolescence - as a way of showing those assholes that I could control my appetites... Which is so sad, in retrospect, because of course no one cared.

  Kate Christensen

  Struggle, Cutting, Feelings

  Source: therumpus.net

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• ... we find ourselves facing a rising tide of biologically active, synthetic organic chemicals. Some tinker with our hormones. Some attach themselves to our chromosomes and trigger mutations. Some cripple the immune system. Some light up our genes and so enhance the production of certain enzymes. If we could metabolize these chemicals into completely benign breakdown products and excrete them, they would pose less of a hazard. Instead, a good many of them accumulate.

  Sandra Steingraber

  Light, Good Man, Environmental

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• When a male vole repeatedly mates with a female, a hormone called vasopressin is released in his brain. The vasopressin binds to receptors in a part of the brain called the nucleus accumbens, and the binding mediates a pleasurable feeling that becomes associated with that female. This locks in the monogamy, which is known as pair-bonding. If you block this hormone, the pair-bonding goes away.

  David Eagleman

  Block, Feelings, Brain

  Source: www.goodreads.com

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• It is important to understand that while oxytocin may be the hub of the evolution of the social brain in mammals, it is part of a very complex system. Part of what it does is act in opposition to stress hormones, and in that sense release of oxytocin feels good - as stress hormones and anxiety do not feel good.

  Patricia Churchland

  Stress, Oxytocin, Feel Good

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• If you want a cow to be not just a cow but a milk machine, you can do a very good job at that by creating new hormones like the Bovine Growth Hormone. It might make the cow very ill, it might turn it into a drug addict, and it might even create consumer scares about the health and safety aspects of the milk. But we've gotten so used to manipulating objects and organisms and ecosystems for a single objective that we ignore the costs involved. I call this the "monoculture of the mind."

  Vandana Shiva

  Jobs, Ecosystems, Growth Hormones

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• It turns out that we literally don't empathize unless we're physically present - that the oxytocin, the famous "tend and befriend" hormone is not produced unless we're present with all five senses.

  Gloria Steinem

  Oxytocin, Five Senses, Turns

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I cry all the time. It's more like when didn't you cry. My friends are like, 'Oh God, she's sobbing again.' I cry if I'm happy, sad, normal... What really gets me is when I read a sad story about a child in the paper, especially at the moment with my hormones raging.

  Sara Cox

  Children, Stories, Paper

  "Interrogation: Sara Cox". Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. March 2, 2008.

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• As a teenager, you have so much energy and hormones and you feel powerless in your life.

  Patricia Arquette

  Teenager, Energy, Feels

  Source: collider.com

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• You suffer when you give birth, it doesn't matter, it's nature. They tell you, oh, those hormone pills, they're terrible, you'll get cancer. But when it comes to Viagra for men, they don't speak about cancer.

  Jeanne Moreau

  Cancer, Men, Giving

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• I always have really fresh, hormone-free, additive-free chicken, healthy veggies, and brown rice in the fridge to grab because I'm always on the go.

  Laura Prepon

  Healthy, Always On The Go, Chickens

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• If technology and medicine are used by women to have children or not to have children or to have healthier children - that's one thing. But if it's used to say, 'You're not a real woman unless you have a child, therefore take all these dangerous hormones and have one at 54," then it's another story.

  Gloria Steinem

  Children, Real, Technology

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• The survey of more than 100 waterways downstream from treatment plants and animal feedlots in 30 states found minute amounts of dozens of antibiotics, hormones, pain relievers, cough suppressants, disinfectants and other products. It is not known whether they are harmful to plants, animals or people. The findings were released yesterday on the Web site of the United States Geological Survey, which conducted the research, and in an online journal, Environmental Science and Technology.

  Andrew Revkin

  Pain, Animal, Technology

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