The time is come when women must do something more than the “domestic hearth,” which means nursing the infants, keeping a pretty house, having a good dinner and an entertaining party.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALELittle as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by color, and light, we do know this, that they have an actual physical effect.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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A girl, if she has any pride, is so ashamed of having anything she wishes to say out of the hearing of her own family, she thinks it must be something so very wrong, that it is ten to one, if she have the opportunity of saying it, that she will not.
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Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity these, three and a place in society where no one of the three can be exercised?
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Religion was important to me. My family and I were very religious. I acctualy believe the work I did was a calling from God himself.
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The specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of weak, uncultured, unstable minds, such as now rule in the medical profession. There are no specific diseases; there are specific disease conditions.
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The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.
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It is very well to say “be prudent, be careful, try to know each other.” But how are you to know each other?
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The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
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Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
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Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
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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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Religious men are and must be heretics now- for we must not pray, except in a “form” of words, made beforehand- or think of God but with a prearranged idea.
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Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter’s or sculptor’s work.
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Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
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