Hormones Quotes

“I sigh. "I don't know what's happening to me."
"They're called hormones."

I shoot him a dirty look. "I'm serious."

"Me too." He cocks his head at me. "That's like, biological and shit. Scientific. Maybe your lady bits are scientifically confused."

"My lady bits?"

"Oh, I'm sorry" - Kenji pretends to look offended - "would you rather I use the proper anatomical terminology? Because you lady bits do not scare me-"
"Yeah, no thanks.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“Oh I believe in loving cats and dogs and children and parents – sometimes – but I don’t believe in romantic love. Of course, there’s the momentary rush of hormones and chemicals that encourages us to mate, but it’s biology – it’s no more inherently mystical than the nicotine in that cigarette you’re smoking”
― Amy Jenkins

“I am often described to my irritation as a 'contrarian' and even had the title inflicted on me by the publisher of one of my early books. (At least on that occasion I lived up to the title by ridiculing the word in my introduction to the book's first chapter.) It is actually a pity that our culture doesn't have a good vernacular word for an oppositionist or even for someone who tries to do his own thinking: the word 'dissident' can't be self-conferred because it is really a title of honor that has to be won or earned, while terms like 'gadfly' or 'maverick' are somehow trivial and condescending as well as over-full of self-regard. And I've lost count of the number of memoirs by old comrades or ex-comrades that have titles like 'Against the Stream,' 'Against the Current,' 'Minority of One,' 'Breaking Ranks' and so forth—all of them lending point to Harold Rosenberg's withering remark about 'the herd of independent minds.' Even when I was quite young I disliked being called a 'rebel': it seemed to make the patronizing suggestion that 'questioning authority' was part of a 'phase' through which I would naturally go. On the contrary, I was a relatively well-behaved and well-mannered boy, and chose my battles with some deliberation rather than just thinking with my hormones.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

“There is a correlation between the number of days since a man last had sex, and, the number of things that he is willing to do for a woman.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Just as a heroin addict chases a substance-induced high, sex addicts are bingeing on chemicals — in this case, their own hormones.”
― Alexandra Katehakis

“You see, I'd behaved pretty badly. Losing my head about someone I didn't really love and hurting someone I did. Why is one so stupid?"

"The heart has its reasons," said Will, "and the endocrines have theirs.”
― Aldous Huxley, Island

“The soybean itself is a notably inauspicious staple food; it contains a whole assortment of "antinutrients" - compounds that actually block the body's absorption of vitamins and minerals, interfere with the hormonal system, and prevent the body from breaking down the proteins of the soy itself.”
― Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

“Why do you think, A.J.," they say in unison, "that you find these boys so attractive?"

I didn't say that this fiery chemical explosion leaps from somewhere inside me. Parents don't want to hear these things. I shrugged and said nothing.

"Maybe you should try sitting on the intensity," Mom suggests, "just until your feelings catch up with reality."

"We could chain you to the water heater," Dad offers, "until these little moments pass."

You see what I'm up against.”
― Joan Bauer

“I believe that love and forgiveness engages an incomprehensible healing force and sometimes true healing occurs, but always an emotional and spiritual healing happens.”
― Angeli Maun Akey

“I want to kill you!!!’ said crazy mommy of newborn baby!”
― Steven Magee

“Researchers have shown that the flooding of stress hormones resulting from a traumatic separation from your parents at a young age kills off so many dendrites and neurons in the brain that it results in permanent psychological and physical changes. One psychiatrist I went to told me that my brain looked like a tree without branches.

So I just think about all the children who have been separated from their parents, and there's a lot of us, past and present, and some under more traumatic circumstances than others--like those who are in internment camps right now--and I just imagine us as an army of mutants. We’ve all been touched by this monster, and our brains are forever changed, and we all have trees without branches in there, and what will happen to us? Who will we become? Who will take care of us?”
― Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, The Undocumented Americans

“Estrogen appears to be protective against the damaging effects of COVID-19.”
― Steven Magee, COVID Supplements

“COVID-19 is known to depress testosterone levels in males.”
― Steven Magee, COVID Supplements

“My friend said menopause made all of her friends forgetful and moody!”
― Steven Magee

“It has been found that so called tomboy behavior in girls correlated closely with higher levels of testosterone. On the other side, low testosterone levels in males result in unassertive and ‘feminine’ behavior, whereas the highest levels of testosterone to which men are exposed during adolescence result in extra aggressiveness.”
― Azar Gat, War in Human Civilization

“Both the capabilities and evolutionary strategies of men and women, capabilities and strategies that were of course interconnected and mutually reinforcing, made men much more predisposed to fighting than women.”
― Azar Gat, War in Human Civilization

“Cognitive studies, aided by brain scanning, have revealed that men and women in fact use different parts of their brains in coping with various cognitive tasks. Furthermore, whereas the right and left hemispheres of a man's brain are much more specialized, those of won1en operate in greater co-operation, and the corpus callosum connecting them is larger. Not only are the bodies of women and men structured somewhat differently but also that particular organ of their bodies, the brain, and hence their minds.”
― Azar Gat, War in Human Civilization

“Cognitive studies, aided by brain scanning, have revealed that men and women in fact use different parts of their brains in coping with various cognitive tasks. Furthermore, whereas the right and left hemispheres of a man's brain are much more specialized, those of women operate in greater co-operation, and the corpus callosum connecting them is larger. Not only are the bodies of women and men structured somewhat differently but also that particular organ of their bodies, the brain, and hence their minds.”
― Azar Gat, War in Human Civilization

“You are my sex test pilot!”
― Steven Magee

“COVID damages testosterone levels and they can go much lower.”
― Steven Magee

“Biology creates males and females. Pollution creates infertility in them.”
― Steven Magee

“You, me and testosterone!”
― Steven Magee

“I am a hormonally challenged kind of guy.”
― Steven Magee

“Your hormones must be clouding your rational thoughts.'

'My hormones are always clouding my rational thoughts, thank you very much.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, From Blood and Ash

“Hormones for a healthy body; serotonin, endorphins, dopamine, oxytocin, and love.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Rep By Rep

“The testosterone doctor told me I had good testosterone because I had a hairy chest!”
― Steven Magee

“Rainbows mark the people that have not developed correctly.”
― Steven Magee

“Gender issues are an illness of the hormonal system.”
― Steven Magee

“Are you blaming my mood on my period?"
Zach's face flushed a deeper red. "I'm just saying you don't have to feel bad about it."
"I don't feel bad! And, also, I didn't have my period when I first got here. But even if I did, it's none of your business. Don’t ever blame a girl’s mood on her period. It's like saying her feelings aren’t real because hormones are taking over.”
― Debbi Michiko Florence, Sweet and Sour

“Darlene told me that the hormones women have in them when they've got PMS, men have in them all the time," says Myrna.

"That would account for world leaders," says Leonie.”
― Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories