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• In modern consumer society, the attack on mother-child eroticism took its total form; breastfeeding was proscribed and the breasts reserved for the husband's fetishistic delectation. At the same time, babies were segregated, put into cold beds alone and not picked up if they cried.

  Germaine Greer

  Mother, Baby, Children

  Germaine Greer (1985). “Sex and destiny: the politics of human fertility”

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• I'm so scared girls look at my breast implants and think, 'To get boys, you need big boobs.' I tell them, 'Don't get it done. Those fears go away. You develop other insecurities, but breasts aren't one of them.' I want to get them half-size.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Girl, Boys, Thinking

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• I keep having the urge to cross my hands over my chest, to cover up my breasts, to hide. I'm suddenly aware of how pale I look in the sunshine, and how many moles I have spotting up and down my chest, and I just know he's looking at me thinking i'm wrong or deformed. But the he breathes, 'Beautiful' and when his eyes meet mine I know that he really, truly means it.

  Lauren Oliver

  Beautiful, Mean, Eye

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• I want to be inside you so badly, Grace,” he whispered. “I want to feel your legs wrapped around me, feel your breasts against my chest, hear you moaning as I make slow, sweet love to you. I want your smell on my body, your breath on my skin.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Sweet, Smell, Grace

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Fantasy Lover”, p.155, Hachette UK

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• Beware of averages. The average person has one breast and one testicle.

  Dixie Lee Ray

  Average, Testicles, Persons

  "How Many Lawyers Do You Need To Fry Spam?" by Jean Godden, community.seattletimes.nwsource.com. October 9, 1991.

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• And the weak soul, within itself unbless'd, Leans for all pleasure on another's breast.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Soul, Weakness, Pleasure

  Oliver Goldsmith, Tobias Smollett, Samuel Johnson, William Shenstone (1861). “Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith, Tobias Smollett, Samuel Johnson and William Shenstone”, p.9

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• If a woman says, I am getting these breast implants to gain self confidence, then I have to ask, What kind of a society do we live in where a woman's self-confidence depends on having a dangerous, expensive and painful operation on a perfectly healthy body?

  Katha Pollitt

  Self Confidence, Healthy, Body

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• I was a 36C or D, and at 5' 1'', I knew that being a small person with big boobs standing in front of an audience was not going to be easy. It would be really hard to get people to pay attention to me without mocking me. Getting a breast reduction to prepare for my career was no different from people who work to get good grades to get into a good college to get into a good graduate school to get a good job. I went down to a B cup, and it was the best thing in the whole world.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Jobs, School, College

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I feel that between my experience and my mother's, breast cancer is a little bit like someone who lives next door. I know what that person looks like and what their daily habits are.

  Cynthia Nixon

  Mother, Cancer, Doors

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• My goal is people associate November with COPD awareness month as much as they notice October with breast cancer and pink. That'd be a great thing if it happened. The fact that COPD kills more people than breast cancer and diabetes put together should raise some red flags.

  Danica Patrick

  Cancer, Red Flags, People

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• I have a new found respect for women who have been through breast cancer and this surgery.

  Giuliana Rancic

  Cancer, Respect Women, Found

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• I read somewhere that Mitt and I have a 'storybook marriage.' Well, in the storybooks I read, there were never long, long, rainy winter afternoons in a house with five boys screaming at once. And those storybooks never seemed to have chapters called MS or breast cancer.

  Ann Romney

  Cancer, Winter, Boys

  Ann Romney (2015). “In This Together: My Story”, p.161, Macmillan

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• I have to admit, like so many women, I always knew there was a chance. But like so many women, I never thought it would be me. I never thought I'd hear those devastating words: 'You have breast cancer.'

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz

  Cancer, Would Be, Chance

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• Breast cancer is not just a disease that strikes at women. It strikes at the very heart of who we are as women: how others perceive us, how we perceive ourselves, how we live, work and raise our families-or whether we do these things at all.

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz

  Cancer, Heart, Who We Are

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• And I'll tell you, honestly, folks that I talk to, the 2.5 million breast cancer survivors in America, that I am one of, understand that we're done with insurance companies dropping us or denying us coverage because of - because we have a preexisting condition.

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz

  Cancer, America, Survivor

  "Reps. Ryan, Wasserman Schultz on 'FNS'". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. March 21, 2010.

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• People used to say everyone knows someone who's had breast cancer. In the past few weeks, I've learned something else: Everyone has someone close to them who has had breast cancer.

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz

  Cancer, Past, People

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• A very beautiful young woman once asked me to sign her breasts. That was back when I was a hip young thing - it's been all downhill since then.

  Will Self

  Beautiful, Hips, Back When

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• Both of my grandmothers were diagnosed with breast cancer - one is a survivor and one passed away.

  Jessica Simpson

  Cancer, Grandmother, Survivor

  "Shoes on Sale: Q&A with Jessica Simpson". Interview with Jordan Saniuk, footwearnews.com. October 12, 2009.

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• I had a breast reduction.

  Patti Stanger

  Reduction

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• There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.

  Virginia Woolf

  Fashion, Heart, Views

  Virginia Woolf (1995). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.92, Wordsworth Editions

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• When I was 41, I found a lump the size of a grape in my right breast. I ended up bald, sick and exhausted from surgeries, chemo and radiation treatments. Ah, but I got to live.

  Regina Brett

  Sick, Radiation, Size

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• Breast-feeding does not belong in the realm of facts and hard numbers; it is much too intimate and elemental.

  Hanna Rosin

  Numbers, Doe, Facts

  "Is breast-feeding really best?" by Mike Celizic, www.today.com. March 16, 2009.

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• Because he knows you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy. He knows there's a painful side; he knows my thumb smarts and his girlfriend has a bruised breast and the doctor is losing his glasses, but he won't let the pain blot out the humor no more'n he'll let the humor blot out the pain.

  Ken Kesey

  Running, Girlfriend, Hurt

  Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.128, Hamilton Books

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• If wild my breast and sore my pride, I bask in dreams of suicide, If cool my heart and high my head I think 'How lucky are the dead.

  Dorothy Parker

  Suicide, Dream, Heart

  Dorothy Parker (1992). “The Sayings of Dorothy Parker”, Duckbacks

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• And for all this, nature is never spent; There lives the dearest freshness deep down things; And though the last lights off the black West went Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs— Because the Holy Ghost over the bent World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Faith, Morning, Spring

  'God's Grandeur' (written 1877)

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