From the ArcaMax Publishing, History & Quotes Newsletter:
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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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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.