Specific Death Rates

Famous quotes containing the words specific, death and/or rates:

    “Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.”
    —Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)

    “Fatigue dulls the pain, but awakes enticing thoughts of death. So! that is the way in which you are tempted to overcome your loneliness—by making the ultimate escape from life..—No! It may be that death is to be your ultimate gift to life: it must not be an act of treachery against it.”
    —Dag Hammarskjöld (1905–1961)

    “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)