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Florence Nightingale3 quotes
Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better. — Florence Nightingale · 1852I would earnestly ask my sisters to keep clear of both the jargons now current everywhere... Of the jargon, namely about the "rights" of women, which urges women to do all that men do... Merely because men do it, and without regard to whether this is the best that women can do; and of the jargon which urges women to do nothing that men do, merely because they are women... Woman should bring the best she has, whatever that is... Without attending to either of these cries. — Florence Nightingale · 1860I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse. — Florence Nightingale · 1861