I Use The Word Nursing For Want

Averages ... Seduce Us Away From Minute Observation.

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, Without Fear Of Offending Or Of Hurting Someone. Why Do People Sit Up So Late, Or, More Rarely, Get Up So Early? Not Because The Day Is Not Long Enough, But Because They Have 'no Time In The Day To Themselves.' 1852

I Can Expect No Sympathy Or Help From My Family.

We Know Nothing Of The Principle Of Health, The Positive Of Which Pathology Is The Negative, Except From Observation And Experience. Nothing But Observation And Experience Will Teach Us The Ways To Maintain Or To Bring Back The State Of Health. It Is Often Thought That Medicine Is The Curative Process. It Is No Such Thing; Medicine Is The Surgery Of Functions As Surgery Proper Is That Of Limbs And Organs.

Why Have Women Passion, Intellect, Moral Activity These, Three And A Place In Society Where No One Of The Three Can Be Exercised?