Quote by Gabrielle Palmer

It's a two-way street: breastfeeding women should never be embarrassed by staff asking them to stop, and most mums will recognise the need to…

— Nigel Farage

“Using breasts for feeding a baby may be emotionally confusing if society and personal experience have emphasised their sexual and aesthetic functions.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“In societies where breastfeeding is taken for granted and practised unselfconsciously and openly, women find it easier.21”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“In the same way, breastfeeding is seen as a woman’s topic. Though women are often told whether or not they should do it, it…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Where breastfeeding is a normal everyday event women have fewer problems than in societies where it is concealed.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

I think that, given that some people feel very embarrassed by it, it isn't too difficult to breastfeed a baby in a way that's…

— Nigel Farage

In modern consumer society, the attack on mother-child eroticism took its total form; breastfeeding was proscribed and the breasts reserved for the husband's fetishistic…

— Germaine Greer

There are proven health benefits for both babies and mothers who breastfeed, and it's unfortunate that it still carries an unfair stigma in our…

— Rashida Tlaib

“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

“The profound mistrust of breastfeeding is complex, but a primitive male fear of the polluting quality of women comes into the argument.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“In industrialised countries, despite strong evidence, public health messages do not emphasise the risks of not breastfeeding.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“In most traditional societies babies and mothers have a period of time to establish breastfeeding. Techniques have been learned unconsciously at an early age…

— Gabrielle Palmer