Civil war Quote by Mary Pope Osborne

“They’ll never let women keep nursing after the war, Charlotte.”

— Jocelyn Green

“An estimated 400 women disguised themselves as men to fight in the Civil War. Many were like Amy Clarke, who enlisted so she could…

— Gail Collins

Often with little power or sway on their own, nurses -- mostly women, historically -- have been a force of will and a sense…

— Barack Obama

My wife volunteered her services as Red Cross nurse, insisting upon being sent to the front, in order to be as near me as…

— Fritz Kreisler

Men, Grace learned, seemed to think women were all frustrated nurses.

— Alexandra Potter

I read "Women Heroes of World War I" and was absolutely astonished. When we imagine women serving in the First World War, mostly we…

— Kate Quinn

“no family can get on without women to help; that in every family, poor or rich, there are and must be nurses, either relations…

— Anton Chekhov

“Their task was to film the work of the Allied women. More than 20,000 American women served overseas during the war—10,000 as nurses in…

— Cari Beauchamp

“For many nurses, especially those raised and educated in the Quaker faith, serving in the China Convoy epitomized the ideal nursing practice “tied to…

— Susan Armstrong-Reid

When I was contemplating medical school after graduating from Knox, several people suggested that nursing was a more suitable profession for women. My own…

— Mary Pope Osborne

They were a group of two dozen nurses completely surrounded by 100,000 unattached American men.

— James A. Michener

“It was the medical staff, not the mothers, who resisted the idea that breastfeeding worked.”

— Gabrielle Palmer