Jessica Valenti

A huge part of keeping women in their place has to do with creating a really limited definition of what a 'real' woman is like. And a ton of that what-makes-a-woman nonsense is attached to motherhood. Apparently, by virtue of having ovaries and a uterus, women are automatic mommies or mommies-to-be.

American Writer

Candace Owens

Call me weird, but personally, when it comes to my ovaries, I prefer to speak to my gynecologist. I don't think the leaders of the free world should have to be an expert on the issue, nor should they ever publicly voice their opinions.

American Activist

Robert Edwards

It struck me what we should be trying to do was pluck the egg from the ovary and fertilise it in the laboratory. We could do this in animals increasingly... this was the way to go in the human species.

English Scientist

Mark Roth

In the immortal germ line of human beings - that is, the eggs that sit in the ovaries - they actually sit there in a state of suspended animation for up to 50 years in the life of each woman.

American Scientist

Fran Drescher

I told her I wanted a plastic surgeon to sew me up, and I wanted her to freeze my ovaries, so I could harvest the eggs and have a biological child through a surrogate.

American Actress

Martha McSally

When I started at the Air Force Academy, I found out that I couldn't be a fighter pilot simply because I had ovaries. That was enough to make me go for it.

American Politician

Cobie Smulders

Just when your ovaries should be brimming with youthful follicles, cancerous cells overtook mine, threatening to end my fertility and potentially my life.

Canadian Actress

Robert Winston

A young woman in her teens has about 300,000 eggs in her ovaries. By the time she is menopausal, none are left.

British Scientist

Michelle Rodriguez

People forget we come from an embryo and we're part sperm and part ovary. We have both sides in us.

Odette Annable

I can't even be around children. It's a problem. My ovaries start screaming.

Used only for females or female animals, as males don't have ovaries.

Gender Specific

Often used in healthcare and biology, it's a technical term not used casually.

Medical Context

When discussing human reproduction or fertility, 'ovary' is a key term.

Reproduction Focus

In plants, the ovary is part of the flower, not to be confused with animal ovaries.

Botanical Term

When fertilized, a flower's ovary develops into a fruit, a concept in botany classes.

Fruit Development

A flower's ovary is not always obvious; sometimes it's hidden within the flower.

Not Always Visible

 And it's often not until she hits puberty and she's growing and developing breasts, but she's not getting her period, that somebody figures out something's up here. And they do some tests and figure out that, instead of having ovaries inside and a uterus, she has testes inside, and she has a Y chromosome. Now what's important to understand

Alice Dreger: Is anatomy...

 started to notice a pattern farmers were asking things like can i ovary pay my loan for next year's loan or you know it'd be easier if I could repay if I could start repaying my loan three months before getting a loan or six months before getting a loan and I thought hey this doesn't match your cash

Helping small-scale...

 sex of her children which plays a pivotal role in their future if the queen wants to lay a female egg she will fertilize the egg by releasing spermatozoa that is stored in the spermatheca which sits behind her ovaries the spermatheca is filled during her first week of life when she mates

How Do Honeybees Get...

 Each month beginning around puberty, the hormone-producing pituitary gland in the brain starts releasing two substances into the follicle stimulating hormone and luteinizing hormone. When they reach the ovaries, they encourage the internal egg cells to grow and mature.

How menstruation works -...

 It's not your dotage. Your worth has nothing to do with your ovaries. So let's say you're in the menopause transition. What are the best things you can do? If you're suffering, there's almost always some kind of help. If you smoke, definitely try to quit.

What really happens to...

 That triggers the gradual development of the sexual organs, makes facial hair sprout, and causes the voice to deepen and height to increase. In women, estrogen secreted from the ovaries signals the start of adulthood. It helps the body develop,

How do your hormones...

 And it does take a lot of nerve to come up here and talk to you about my genitalia. Just a little. But I'm not talking about bravery or courage. I mean literally -- I have balls. Right here, right where a lot of you have ovaries.

The way we think about...

 No matter the roll size or shape of any of the body systems each began with a reproductive system This system is responsible for creating life the primary organs involved differ between the sexes with ovaries fallopian

Human Body 101 PIPE...

 Women's estrogens, on the other hand, start fading in midlife, during menopause, which is anything but symptom-free. We associate menopause with the ovaries, but when women say that they're having hot flashes,

How menopause affects...

 She has to get it right. Her body has to. Deep inside, hormones in her blood have been stimulating her ovaries, producing an egg.

Ovary