Health Quote by Gabrielle Palmer

“Women the world over suffer restrictions.”

— Sara Sheridan

“Enabling mothers and babies to fulfil this period of vital nurture is not a favour to women; it is a contribution to the whole…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“...I believe woman could manage everything in the world without men's help–except birthing babies...”

— Margaret Mitchell

“Every year over half a million women (99% of them from the poor world) die from causes related to pregnancy and childbirth.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“I have often thought,” she said, “that women are the only true adults in the world, and men are a species of children. When…

— Phyllis T. Smith

“Women have a unique power through breastfeeding to maintain health, life and finite resources.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“While women workers were struggling to keep their children fed and alive, their leisured sisters were convinced by doctors that they were too delicate…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“The underlining assumption of all the new laws is that women can't be trusted to make their own health decisions;”

— Willie Parker

“All women need practical and emotional support around birth.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

Maternal health remains a staggering challenge, particularly in the developing world. Globally, a woman dies from complications in childbirth every minute.

— Jessica Capshaw

“All too often, those of us who choose to remain childless are accused of being somehow unwomanly or unnatural or selfish, but history teaches…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“Some babies are less secure in the presence of strangers and that is when they need the breast most, yet in industrialised society this…

— Gabrielle Palmer