Quote by Gabrielle Palmer

“But in all seriousness, the infantilization of women perpetuates inequality, and when that is conflated with sex, it’s easier to reduce women to objects…

— Phoebe Robinson

“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

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

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Enabling mothers and babies to fulfil this period of vital nurture is not a favour to women; it is a contribution to the whole…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Most mothers intended to breastfeed, but the spreading message to restrict feeding made problems more likely.”

— 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

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

— Gabrielle Palmer

“The fact that a woman in power must hide female qualities like lactation, is a measure of continuing male dominance.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“If they [the mothers] use different vocabularies, they may share a postmodern feminist "body politics" - in this instance an awareness that maternal breastfeeding…

— Linda Blum

“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 today's world, both men and woman need motherhood, the nurturing motherly feeling, the feminine energy. By receiving this energy, it will make them…

— Mata Amritanandamayi

“On the topic of babies: "I know which end you feed.”

— Ellen DeGeneres