My family tried to educate me in the way they thought a young woman should be. But I wanted to learn about mathmatics. I must have gotten that from my father, he was a master of math and science, and I always liked that sort of thing, too. Of course my mother and father did not agree with me on becoming more educated in mathmatics, but I was persistent and eventualy they gave in and I was taught by a wonderful teacher.

The family uses people, not for what they are, nor for what they are intended to be, but for what it wants them for- its own uses. It thinks of them not as what God has made them, but as the something which it has arranged that they shall be.

Woman has nothing but her affections,--and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.

do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.

Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses....we must be learning all of our lives.

For the sick it is important to have the best.

I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.