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Cheryl Wegner <[log in to unmask]>
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It's from Women's bodies, women's wisdom.  My copy is New York : Bantam 
Books, 1998 and it's on p. 510 of that.

Cheryl Wegner
LLLL

Barbara Maclay Cameron wrote:
> Hi, I'm hoping one of you may be able to help me cite the following
> quotation from Christiane Northrup:
>
> "When we trust the makers of baby formula more than we do our own ability to
> nourish our babies, we lose a chance to claim an aspect of our power as
> women. Thinking that baby formula is as good as breast milk is believing
> that thirty years of technology is superior to three million years of
> nature's evolution. Countless women have regained trust in their bodies
> through nursing their children, even if they weren't sure at first that they
> could do it. It is an act of female power, and I think of it as feminism in
> its purest form."
>
> I used this in some comments at a conference last year (lacking a citation)
> but now the proceedings of the conference are being published, so I need a
> reference!
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> thanks,
> Barbara Maclay Cameron
> MSW, LLLL
> Durham, NC
>
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