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

Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.

Averages ... seduce us away from minute observation.

The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health, or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.

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.

We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master.

The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.