Parenting Quote by Gabrielle Palmer

“As the baby grows bigger, she [wet nurse] will chew his meat for him.”

— Joseph Gies

“Being in the womb was like taking a nine-month bath. I wanted to take a shower, but no matter how hard I kicked, or…

— Jarod Kintz

“In those days my mother was given to the exasperating and mysterious habit of having babies.”

— James Baldwin

“In the past, rich women had frequently delegated childcare to a wet nurse. As doctors and companies began to promote and provide artificial milks,…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“I understood and appreciated the miracle of birth, but I did not understand motherhood, nor did I appreciate the oveselling of it. To me…

— Anonymous

“She was a dull person, but a sensational invitation to make babies. Men looked at her and wanted to fill her up with babies…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Perhaps the Queen's prayers, and those of Bernard, had been efficacious, or perhaps Louise had been more attentive in bed, for during 1145--the exact…

— Alison Weir

“It was not my strength that wanted nursing, it was my imagination that wanted soothing.”

— Joseph Conrad

“When my friends began to have babies and I came to comprehend the heroic labor it takes to keep one alive, the constant exhausting…

— Rebecca Solnit

“It doesn't seem FAIR, said Anne rebelliously. Babies are born and live where they are not wanted-where they will be neglected-where they have no…

— L.M. Montgomery

“The word on the street was that I had two options when it came to caring for my future baby: I could either eat,…

— Rachel Held Evans

“...For having a baby's sweet face so close to your own, for so long a time as it takes to nurse 'em, is a…

— Erica Eisdorfer