No woman has excited "passions" among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.

Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses....we must be learning all of our lives.

Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.

The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.

Nature alone cures. ... what nursing has to do ... is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.

Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.

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

The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.

I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

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.

To esteem what makes you holy over what makes you happy - that is the greatest dare.

Still trying to save the world?” “Always, ” I said, “and in case you haven’t noticed, it’s working. The world is still here.

I Twitter (or Facebook) therefore I am

You may fetter my leg, but Zeus himself cannot get the better of my free will.

Adoption is grief in reverse.

An action is essentially good if the motive of the agent be good, regardless of the consequences.

Raymond Chandler once wrote that Dashiell Hammett gave murder back to the people who really committed it.

All confessions are Odysseys.

Her cover version of Smells Like Teen Spirit is the reason Kurt killed himself.

There is more than a morsel of truth in the saying, "He who hates vice hates mankind."