“If you're a baby about the media, as I was, you can't imagine what it's like when the great approval machine shines its beam on you, when every time you cross the street someone comes out of a manhole to talk about your haircut.” IfsImagineStreetsMediaBabyCrossesMachinesShiningApprovalBeamHaircuts Author:Ali MacGraw
“There are a lot of downsides to being male. We age faster and die younger. But give us this: we're lifetime baby-making machines. Women's reproductive abilities start to wane when they're as young as 35. Men? We're good to go pretty much till we're dead.” MenGivingAgeYoungDiesAbilityBabyMachinesLifetimeMalesFaster Author:Jeffrey Kluger
“A woman doing comedy doesn't offend me, but sets me back a bit. I, as a viewer, have trouble with it. I think of her as a producing machine that brings babies in the world.” ThinkingWorldBitsComedyTroubleBabyMachinesViewers Author:Jerry Lewis
“Most countries are static, all they need to do is keep having babies. But America's like this big old clanking smoking machine that just lumbers across the landscape scooping up and eating everything in sight.” NeedsCountryBigsAmericaBabyEatingMachinesSightLandscapeSmokingStaticHaving A BabyLumber Book:Snow Crash Source: Snow Crash
“Pass by the synthetic yarn department, then, with your nose in the air. Should a clerk come out with the remark that All Young Mothers In This Day and Age (why can't they save their breath and say "now"?) insist on a yarn which can be machine-washed and machine-dried, come back at her with the reply that one day, you suppose, they will develop a baby that can be machine-washed and -dried.” ShouldAgeYoungMotherAirBabyOne DayMachinesBreathsNosesDepartmentThis DayRemarksClerksKnittingSyntheticYarnYoung Mother Book:Elizabeth Zimmermann's Knitter's Almanac: The Commemorative Edition Source: Elizabeth Zimmermann's Knitter's Almanac: The Commemorative Edition