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.

She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.

If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.

There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.

Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.

At present we live to impede each other's satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?

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