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Love Quote by Debi Mazar

"With the breast-feeding, I really love the bonding. Real life is more important to me"

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There is a refreshing lack of performance in Mazar's line: it rejects the glossy, “got it all together” version of celebrity motherhood in favor of something tactile and immediate. By naming breast-feeding not as a moral badge but as “the bonding,” she steers the conversation away from purity politics and toward intimacy - a body-level relationship that’s hard to fake for cameras, publicists, or even yourself. The phrase “I really love” lands as plainspoken, almost deliberately unpoetic, which is the point: this isn’t a manifesto, it’s a preference.

“Real life is more important to me” does a second job. On the surface, it’s a value statement about family; under it sits a quiet rebuke of the entertainment machine that treats women’s bodies as content and their private choices as marketable controversy. The subtext is that maternity, for her, isn’t another role to play. It’s a line drawn between being seen and being present.

Context matters: celebrity culture has long swung between fetishizing breast-feeding as earthy authenticity and policing it as inappropriate. Mazar cuts through that double bind by framing it as relational rather than ideological. She’s not auditioning for the “perfect mom” slot; she’s insisting that the unglamorous, repetitive closeness of caregiving outranks whatever headline-ready identity the industry might prefer.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Mazar, Debi. (2026, January 17). With the breast-feeding, I really love the bonding. Real life is more important to me. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/with-the-breast-feeding-i-really-love-the-bonding-57887/

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Mazar, Debi. "With the breast-feeding, I really love the bonding. Real life is more important to me." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/with-the-breast-feeding-i-really-love-the-bonding-57887/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"With the breast-feeding, I really love the bonding. Real life is more important to me." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/with-the-breast-feeding-i-really-love-the-bonding-57887/. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.

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Debi Mazar (born August 15, 1964) is a Actress from USA.

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