I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.

I was very limited as a women. Getting the men in the military to see that the medical facilities were unhealthy was very difficult, along with many other things such as getting a good education and also finding a good career.

No woman has excited "passions" among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.

In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.

Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.

Statistics is the most important science in the whole world: for upon it depends the practical application of every other science and of every art: the one science essential to all political and social administration, all education, all organization based on experience, for it only gives results of our experience.

The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.