Birth Rate Decline

Famous quotes containing the words birth, rate and/or decline:

“For birth was a disease and Christopher and I invented the cure.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

“We honor motherhood with glowing sentimentality, but we don’t rate it high on the scale of creative occupations.”
—Leontine Young (20th century)

“The chief misery of the decline of the faculties, and a main cause of the irritability that often goes with it, is evidently the isolation, the lack of customary appreciation and influence, which only the rarest tact and thoughtfulness on the part of others can alleviate.”
—Charles Horton Cooley (1864–1929)