How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEWomen have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
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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.
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The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.
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Woman has nothing but her affections,–and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.
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No 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.
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Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
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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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People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.
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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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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women… no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.
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Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
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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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