>Anyone care to contribute to my file of quotes about breastfeeding and/or
breasts?  I offer several favorites to get us started:

"The giving of birth and nurturing of my baby empowered me as a woman in
ways that I can't quite explain.  All I know is that when I would sit up at
night, nursing him, when all the house was quiet, I had an uncommon sense of
being engaged in the single most important activity there is in life."
Anonymous respondent to a survey conducted and published by the Women's
Committee of the American Studies Association, 1988, published in "Personal
Lives and Professional Careers: The Uneasy Balance."  College Park, MD:
American Studies Association


"I could never be a woman 'cause I'd just stay home and play with my breasts
all day."  Harris Telemacher (Steve Martin's character) from "L.A. Story" 1991


On the absence of nipples on mannequins, etc.:

"So what is it about this small gland of postnatal nourishment that puts a
great nation in a dither?  Perhaps the problem has to do with generations of
men who didn't get enough nipple when in really counted."  Glenn O'Brien,
"Nipple Phobia" in Playboy Magazine, January 1995:42-43.

Enjoy!
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