Breasts Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Anyone who has breast-fed knows two things for sure: The baby wants to be fed at the most inopportune times, in the most inopportune…

— Anna Quindlen

“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

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

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Life is sometimes amazingly fragile, but some lives are frighteningly strong. My elder daughter says that when you mow down weeds with a tractor,…

— Kyung-Sook Shin

“The influence of bottle-feeding makes many people think that ‘nipple sucking’ is breastfeeding. It is not. If the baby sucks his mother’s nipples as…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“The gift of sustenance is crucial to motherhood: the mother providing milk for her newborn from her own body, created from her own blood.…

— Lisa E. Dahill

“So long as the child was fed on its mother's milk, everything seemed to it smooth and easy. But when it had to give…

— Lev Shestov

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

— Gabrielle Palmer

“When the child must be weaned, the mother too is not without sorrow at the thought that she and the child are separated more…

— Soren Kierkegaard

A baby nursing at a mother's breast... is an undeniable affirmation of our rootedness in nature.

— David Suzuki

The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.

— Henry Ward Beecher

This weird pressure that mothers are put under, like this idea that if you can't breastfeed, you're not doing something properly, or if you…

— Lena Dunham