Health Quote by Gabrielle Palmer

The elephant in the room time and time again when it comes to work and promotions is maternity leave. We need to work with…

— Mary Portas

“It is cheaper and more efficient to replace labour than to reproduce it sequentially by fulfilling the rights of women workers to maternity leave…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“The USA has no federal legislation concerning maternity protection, let alone breastfeeding breaks, and despite some high profile companies supporting breastfeeding employees, many women…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“No woman in maternity confinement can have stranger and more impatient wishes than I have.”

— Søren Kierkegaard

Women need to understand that it is possible to stay in the workforce. A lot of women decide to take a back seat in…

— Ruchi Sanghvi

“Laborsaving devices do not necessarily save time, but they increase our expectactations of what mothers should accomplish”

— Kathleen A. Kendall-Tackett

I think it's important that we challenge the idea that women who have babies are not fit for work and don't have value. There…

— Jo Swinson

“Forty percent of employed mothers lack sick days and vacation leave, and about 50 percent of employed mothers are unable to take time off…

— Sheryl Sandberg

“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

“After all, breastfeeding mothers are the most sustainable, local, efficient, life-saving emergency response.”

— 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

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

— Gabrielle Palmer