I emailed Liz Brooks off list yesterday and included these posts from the archives.
Jan Cornfoot
Lactnet June 2001
response from Gabrielle Palmer
>>>" ...it was me... In fact this was the opening line of my outline to
Pandora Press when they asked me to write the book, so I actually recall
composing this in Cornwall on holiday at Easter in 1985. Pandora liked it
and the rest is history........ it's nice to know people still enjoy that
sentence. It is still valid. " >>
and also from the archives same time:
QUOTE from Pat Young:
>>"My best info source (Jan Cornfoot in AU) checked with Gabrielle Palmer. It
is Gabrielle's quote! 1st paragraph in first chapter of "The Politics
ofBreastfeeding." It was written in 1985 and has been paraphrased or
co-opted by others since."
quote from Jan Cornfoot:
There have been lots of variations since then..
I'm prepared to send this paragraph from POB if anyone would like to keep
it.. (but hopefully you all have this classic on your shelves.)
Jan Cornfoot
Breastfeeding Advocate
IBFAN Representative in Australia
===================================
The "Imagine" article that I wrote is actually the conclusion to my chapter
"Beauty and the Breast" in the book Breastfeeding: Biocultural Perspectives,
and it isn't what Roni was looking for. It was Gabrielle Palmer who wrote
the piece Roni was looking for.
Kathy Dettwyler
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These are two of my favorite useful quotes:
Nancy Holtzman RN BSN IBCLC
Great Beginnings New Mothers Groups
near Boston MA
Gabrielle Palmer in the The Politics of Breastfeeding: Chapter 1
"Why Breastfeeding is Political"
"If a multinational company developed a product that was a nutritionally
balanced and delicious food, a wonder drug that both prevented and treated
disease, cost almost nothing to produce and could be delivered in
quantities controlled by the consumers' needs, the very announcement of
their find would send their shares rocketing to the top of the stock
market. The scientists who developed the product would win prizes and the
wealth and influence of everyone involed would increase dramaticaaly.
Women have been producing such a miraculous substance, breastmilk, since the
beginning of human existence, yet they form the half of the world's people
who are the least wealthy and the least powerful." p. 19, 2nd edition.
Pandora, London. 1993.
and:
Ms. Magazine (Jan/Feb 1997):
"If a medicine were to be developed that could prevent the deaths of a
million or more children per year, greatly reduce childhood illness and
disease, produce healthier and perhaps even smarter adults, and, in its
administration, contribute to preventing ovarian and premenopausal breast
cancer and osteoporosis in women, it would certainly be hailed as the
greatest miracle in the history of medical science. If, furthermore,
this medicine had no ill side effects, and its production had absolutely
no adverse environmental impact, we would scarcely be able to believe our
good fortune as a species. Now, what if the fantasy were to be extended
a bit, so that we imagine this miracle substance to be not only all of
the above, but also free of charge? In other words, no one stands to
profit economically from its production, promotion, or distribution. In
fact, the only adverse impact at all would be an economic one on a
billion-dollar multinational industry built upon a competing but clearly
inferior product..." - Barbara Quick
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