Classic Quotes by Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) English nurse
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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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I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
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Instead of wishing to see more doctors made by women joining what there are, I wish to see as few doctors, either male or female, as possible. For, mark you, the women have made no improvement - they have only tried to be "men" and they have only succeeded in being third-rate men.
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It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm.
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So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.
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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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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
This news arrived on: 05/12/2008
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