Infant Mortality Rates

Famous quotes containing the words infant, mortality and/or rates:

    To worry about spoiling an infant by comforting him when he cries is needless.... If you put the baby down and the baby cries, pick him up. His crying isn’t a habit you should try to break. Your baby can’t be taught not to cry.
    Lawrence Balter (20th century)

    The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.
    William Dean Howells (1837–1920)

    In the U.S. for instance, the value of a homemaker’s productive work has been imputed mostly when she was maimed or killed and insurance companies and/or the courts had to calculate the amount to pay her family in damages. Even at that, the rates were mostly pink collar and the big number was attributed to the husband’s pain and suffering.
    Gloria Steinem (20th century)