Female

Female

Female (♀) is the sex of an organism, or a part of an organism, which produces non-mobile ova (egg cells). Most female mammals, including human females, have two X chromosomes.

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Famous quotes containing the word female:

    Male God: You’ve earned enough credits to get you into heaven.
    Steve: Oh, thank God.
    Male and Female Gods: You’re welcome.
    Blake Edwards (b. 1922)

    It is not menstrual blood per se which disturbs the imagination—unstanchable as that red flood may be—but rather the albumen in the blood, the uterine shreds, placental jellyfish of the female sea. This is the chthonian matrix from which we rose. We have an evolutionary revulsion from slime, our site of biologic origins. Every month, it is woman’s fate to face the abyss of time and being, the abyss which is herself.
    Camille Paglia (b. 1947)

    Here falling houses thunder on your head,
    And here a female atheist talks you dead.
    Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)