Quotes on Breastfeeding

The child, offered the mother's breast, Will not in the beginning grab it; But soon it clings to it with zest. And thus at wisdom's copious breasts You'll drink each day with greater zest.

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.

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

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.

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?