20th century Quote by Gabrielle Palmer

“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 societies where there is no shame about breastfeeding, the ordinary man is not driven into a frenzy by the sight of a female…

— 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

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

“In Victorian England, famous for its prudery, a respectable woman could feed openly in church,37 yet in contemporary industrialised society where women’s bodies and…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Artificial feeding is risky. This basic fact upsets people who feel insulted if they or their mothers did not breastfeed but most women do…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“In many less-developed societies, the idea of being unable to breastfeed does not exist.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“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

“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

“For the greater part of human existence we went bare-breasted and were accustomed to the great diversity of breast shape. Now instead of feeling…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“One sad fact of the 20th century was that the more contact mothers had with health workers, the less they breastfed.5”

— Gabrielle Palmer