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“Babies can translate the nutrient needs of their tiny bodies into their suckling behaviours, but medical rules based on mistaken theories have sabotaged their…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“My mother had removed my intestines and used them to tie a noose around my neck. She just hadn't kick the stool out from…

— Francesca Zappia

“The potential we squander by picking our bodies to pieces is catastrophic.”

— Sarah Hays Coomer

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

“Mummy had then appeared, telling the press that her son needed his daily dose of iron tonic.”

— Tarquin Hall

“880,000 babies could be saved simply by not removing them from their mothers, and by supporting early suckling.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“There are lots of ways to lose yourself—motherhood’s just one of them.”

— Claire Fontaine

News reports can overwhelm us. We can be appalled, we can sympathise. But what is hard to grasp is the sense that, at this…

— Ralph Fiennes

“Pregnant women shouldn’t be lifting dead bodies.”

— Jeff Strand

“[Judith Warner:] Our neurotic quest to perfect the mechanics of mothering can be interpreted as an effort to do on an individual level what…

— Emily Matchar

“I know what’s coming you see. I know no one beats these odds and I know it’s a matter of getting used to that…

— Christopher Hitchens

“A psychic laywer is a lethal combination in a mother.”

— Cath Crowley