Nature alone cures. ... what nursing has to do ... is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.

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

Religion was important to me. My family and I were very religious. I acctualy believe the work I did was a calling from God himself.

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

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.

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.

The great reformers of the world turn into the great misanthropists, if circumstances or organization do not permit them to act.