Florence Nightingale

"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."

"Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe."

"How very little can be done under the spirit of fear."

"I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse."

"Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe."

"Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe."