Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion |
Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization |
Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization |
How very little can be done under the spirit of fear |
I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse. |
I can expect no sympathy or help from (my family). |
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. |
I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results. |
Instead of wishing to see more doctors made by women joining what there are, I wish to see as few doctors, either male or female, as possible. For, mark you, the women have made no improvement / they have only tried to be ''men'' and they have only succeeded in being third-rate men. |
It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm. |
No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this - 'devoted and obedient'. This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse. It would not do for a policeman |
She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel. |
The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower. |
The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality. |
There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain |