Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor

And during the fifth week of being there, the little egg cell that would grow into you took form.

It differentiated into the ovum.

And so you, the little egg cell, witnessed the next eight months of your mother's gestation, your mother's birth, your mother's screaming.

your mother's toddler years, your mother's learning to sing and laugh and play and learn geography and mathematics all the way through her puberty.

And then, so she's born with some 400,000 egg cells in her two ovaries.

And out of those 400,000 egg cells, approximately 500 of those egg cells are going to be the next follicular eruption.

month by month by month with her period.

And your little egg cell, imagine you're hanging out in your little ovarian follicle and it's your turn and you're getting all prepped by the hormones of the body and you're going, oh my God, it's my ride, right?

And you're this little egg cell.

And then the hormones swoop by your little egg cell and it beams you out and the fimbriae of the fallopian tubes gather you up and you begin your promenade, your fallopian promenade on the way road to your mother's sacred womb.

And in that moment, your father was there for you.

And you were one of the lucky ones.

And you beat the odds of all those egg sales.

You beat the odds.

And how can that not be something that we celebrate the wonder of?

The odds you had to beat just to be here.

And then for the next nine months, that little egg cell is going to multiply its DNA, repackage that DNA.

One cell becomes two, becomes four, becomes eight, becomes 16, becomes 50 trillion cells over the course of nine months.

And you're multiplying egg cells at a rate of 250,000 new cells per second.

Per second, not per minute, per second.