Virgin Birth

A virgin birth can refer to:

  • Parthenogenesis, birth without fertilization
  • Miraculous births, virgin birth in mythology and religion
  • Virgin birth of Jesus
  • Artificial insemination
  • Russell case (1920s)

Famous quotes containing the words virgin and/or birth:

    “The Virgin filled so enormous a space in the life and thought of the time that one stands now helpless before the mass of testimony to her direct action and constant presence in every moment and form of the illusion which men thought they thought their existence.”
    —Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)

    “Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes
    Lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes;
    Antiquity and birth are needless here;
    ‘Tis impudence and money makes a peer.”
    —Daniel Defoe (1660–1731)