Religion Was Important To Me. My Family

Let People Who Have To Observe Sickness And Death Look Back And Try To Register In Their Observation The Appearances Which Have Preceded Relapse, Attack Or Death, And Not Assert That There Were None, Or That There Were Not The Right Ones. A Want Of The Habit Of Observing Conditions And An Inveterate Habit Of Taking Averages Are Each Of Them Often Equally Misleading.

A Girl, If She Has Any Pride, Is So Ashamed Of Having Anything She Wishes To Say Out Of The Hearing Of Her Own Family, She Thinks It Must Be Something So Very Wrong, That It Is Ten To One, If She Have The Opportunity Of Saying It, That She Will Not.

Women Dream Till They Have No Longer The Strength To Dream; Those Dreams Against Which They So Struggle, So Honestly, Vigorously, And Conscientiously, And So In Vain, Yet Which Are Their Life, Without Which They Could Not Have Lived; Those Dreams Go At Last.

I Use The Word Nursing For Want Of A Better.

Volumes Are Now Written And Spoken Upon The Effect Of The Mind Upon The Body. Much Of It Is True. But I Wish A Little More Was Thought Of The Effect Of The Body On The Mind.