Quote by Gabrielle Palmer

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

— Gabrielle Palmer

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

— Gabrielle Palmer

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

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Hospital practices sabotaged breastfeeding, as they still do in too many places.”

— 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

“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

“Breastfeeding is often ‘blamed’ for a problem which it is helping to solve.45”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“In industrialised countries, despite strong evidence, public health messages do not emphasise the risks of not breastfeeding.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

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

— Gabrielle Palmer

“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 spite of continual railing against those unworthy mothers who did not suckle their babies, there was little interest or research into the causes…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Where mothers were not under the intense pressures of urban poverty, breastfeeding could flourish.”

— Gabrielle Palmer