I am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse.

Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer

I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small...

I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.

Remember my name-- you'll be screaming it later.

For us who Nurse, our Nursing is a thing, which, unless in it we are making progress every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back. The more experience we gain, the more progress we can make.

When you see the natural and almost universal craving in English sick for their 'tea,' you cannot but feel that nature knows what she is about. ... A little tea or coffee restores them. ... There is nothing yet discovered which is a substitute to the English patient for his cup of tea.