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- Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
- I use the word nursing for want of a better. It has been limited to signify little more than the administration of medicines and the…
- 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,…
- All disease, at some period or other of its course, is more or less a reparative process, not necessarily accompanied with suffering: an effort of…
- Woman has nothing but her affections,--and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.
- Sublime in the highest style of intellectual beauty, intellect without effort, without suffering... not a feature is correct – but the whole effect is more…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Women never have a half-hour in all their lives (excepting before or after anybody is up in the house) that they can call their own,…
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