Florence Nightingale Quotes

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.

The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.

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.

Give us back our suffering, we cry to Heaven in our hearts-suffering rather than indifferentism; for out of nothing comes nothing… Better have pain than paralysis!

Why have women Passion, intellect, moral activity-these three-and a place in society where no one of the three can be exercised?