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:

    “Our own country furnishes antiquities as ancient and durable, and as useful, as any; rocks at least as well covered with lichens, and a soil which, if it is virgin, is but virgin mould, the very dust of nature. What if we cannot read Rome or Greece, Etruria or Carthage, or Egypt or Babylon, on these; are our cliffs bare?”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “For birth was a disease and Christopher and I invented the cure.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)