Marriage is the only chance (and it is but a chance) offered to women for escape from this death and how eagerly and how ignorantly it is embraced.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALENo man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this-‘devoted and obedient.’ This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse. It would not do for a policeman.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
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The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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To understand God’s thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
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No woman has excited “passions” among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.
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For what is Mysticism? It is not the attempt to draw near to God, not by rites or ceremonies, but by inward disposition? Is it not merely a hard word for ‘The Kingdom of Heaven is within’? Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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Do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.
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The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
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For it may safely be said, not that the habit of ready and correct observation will by itself make us useful nurses, but that without it we shall be useless with all our devotion.
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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.
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If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.
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I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
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The ‘kingdom of heaven is within,’ indeed, but we must also create one without, because we are intended to act upon our circumstances.
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At present we live to impede each other’s satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?
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