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:
“If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.”
—Camille Paglia (b. 1947)
“If it were not somewhat fanciful to suppose that every human excellence is presented, as it were, in one kind of being, we might believe that the whole treasure of morality and order is enshrined in the female character.”
—Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt (1767–1835)
“There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.”
—Camille Paglia (b. 1947)