Life Quote by Gabrielle Palmer

“When our birthing culture comes to its senses and follows the evidence of what works best, then many breastfeeding difficulties will melt away.”

— 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

“People often discuss why so many women do not breastfeed or give up quickly. I believe it is firm evidence of the determination of…

— Gabrielle Palmer

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

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Breastfeeding in industrialised society is closely bound up with perceptions of sexuality. The very reason it is frowned upon in public is that breasts…

— Gabrielle Palmer

It is high time to declare an end to the breastfeeding dictatorship that is drowning women in guilt and worry just when they most…

— Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

“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 benefits to the mother of immediate breastfeeding are innumerable, not the least of which after the weariness of labor and birth is the…

— Ashley Montagu

“To this day ‘insufficient milk’ is the commonest reason that women give for abandoning breastfeeding. This is more common in societies where free access…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“For many women breastfeeding is not an instinct and has to be learned.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Women report that it is often other women who ask them to stop breastfeeding or leave a café or other public place.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

Breastfeeding is an unsentimental metaphor for how love works, in a way. You don’t decide how much and how deeply to love - you…

— Marni Jackson