Quote by 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

“Breastfeeding helps you unwind from a busy day’s work and reconnect with your baby, especially after a tense day.”

— William Sears

“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

Breastfeeding is this savage ritual that just reminds you that your body is a cafeteria now.

— Ali Wong

“Some western women stop breastfeeding early ‘for the marriage’s sake’, as though a physical bond with the baby prevents a happy sex life.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

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

— Gabrielle Palmer

What I loved about breast-feeding was that bond of one-on-one time. The serotonin that's released calms you down and connects you to the baby.

— Isla Fisher

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

“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

“In any emergency, breastfeeding can and must continue. It saves the lives of infants and young children, and of their mothers through reducing the…

— 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

“Confidence, passed on with a bit of technique by other experienced breastfeeding mothers, is still the key to happy breastfeeding.”

— Gabrielle Palmer