Let Us Never Consider Ourselves Finished Nurses....we

Women Never Have A Half-hour In All Their Lives (excepting Before Or After Anybody Is Up In The House) That They Can Call Their Own, Without Fear Of Offending Or Of Hurting Someone. Why Do People Sit Up So Late, Or, More Rarely, Get Up So Early? Not Because The Day Is Not Long Enough, But Because They Have 'no Time In The Day To Themselves.' 1852

There Is A Physical, Not Moral, Impossibility Of Supplying The Wants Of The Intellect In The State Of Civilisation At Which We Have Arrived.

The Very First Requirement In A Hospital Is That It Should Do The Sick No Harm.

She Said The Object And Color In The Materials Around Us Actually Have A Physical Effect On Us, On How We Feel.

Apprehension, Uncertainty, Waiting, Expectation, Fear Of Surprise, Do A Patient More Harm Than Any Exertion.