Leche Quotes & Sayings

To scatter praise or blame without regard to justice is to destroy the distinction of good and evil. Many have no other test of actions than general opinion; and all are so far influenced by a sense of reputation that they are often restrained by fear of reproach, and excited by hope of honour, when other principles have lost their power. — Samuel Johnson

Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him. — Remy De Gourmont

I've come to realize that life, while being everything, is also strangely not much. Except when the light shines on it a different way and then you realize it's a lot after all! — Lorrie Moore

Breastfeeding doesn't give you brownie points. It's simply the normal way to raise a baby. — La Leche League International

The characters do have a life of their own; it's weird. — Julie Walters

La Leche League and the What to Expect books are even explicit about this fear: the pacifier, they warn, cannot substitute for a mother. This is the rare piece of parenting wisdom that manages to be both condescending and confusing. Condescending because it seems unlikely that parents who were considering using a pacifier - parents diligent enough to look it up in a book - were also considering abandoning their child altogether. Confusing because, well - what? How would a pacifier substitute for a mother - how exactly? Are there pacifiers on the market that cuddle and feed and rock and dote on a child? Is a mother nothing more than a nipple? — Nicholas Day

My husband is a Democrat, and I am a Republican, so our political ambitions are on opposite ends. — Susan Ford

right; maybe once you stripped away the rationalizations, it always came down to a simple matter of escape. An escape from poverty or boredom or crime or the shackles of your skin. — Barack Obama

What you see is what you make. What you see in a people is what you eventually create in them. — Ben Okri