Breastfeeding Quotes

Breast Feeding should not be attempted by fathers with hairy chests, since they can make the baby sneeze and give it wind. 

Mike Harding

Nursing does not diminish the beauty of a woman's breasts; it enhances their charm by making them look lived in and happy.  

Robert A. Heinlein

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

David Suzuki

It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.  

Honore de Balzac

Mother's milk, time-tested for millions of years, is the best nutrient for babies because it is nature's perfect food.  

Robert S. Mendelsohn

Mothers ought to bring up and nurse their own children; for they bring them up with greater affection and with greater anxiety, as loving them from the heart, and so to speak, every inch of them. 

Plutarch

A woman's life isn't worth a plateful of cabbage if she hasn't felt life stir under her heart.  Taking a little one to nurse, watching him grow to manhood, that's what love is. 

Carol Shields

How idiotic civilization is!  Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle?  

Katherine Mansfield

Bread is for us a kind of successor to the motherly breast, and it has been over the centuries responsible for billions of sighs of satisfaction.  

Margaret Visser

Mammals:  a family of vertebrate animals whose females in a state of nature suckle their young, but when civilized and enlightened put them out to nurse, or use the bottle.  

Ambrose Bierce

A primary role of the father is to teach the baby that love and comfort are not necessarily associated with food. 

Author Unknown

There must be reasons why we men are so hipped on breasts as if we'd all been weaned too soon.  

Gunter Grass

What a singular fact for an angel visitant to this earth to carry back in his note-book, that men were forbidden to expose their bodies under the severest penalties! 

Henry David Thoreau

People need to understand that when they're deciding between breastmilk and formula, they're not deciding between Coke and Pepsi.... They're choosing between a live, pure substance and a dead substance made with the cheapest oils available.  

Chele Marmet