Florence Nightingale Quotes About Passion

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

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  Florence Nightingale, Martha Vicinus, Bea Nergaard (1990). “Ever Yours, Florence Nightingale: Selected Letters”, p.230, Harvard University Press

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• Passion, intellect, moral activity - these three have never been satisfied in a woman. In this cold and oppressive conventional atmosphere, they cannot be satisfied. To say more on this subject would be to enter into the whole history of society, of the present state of civilisation.

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  Florence Nightingale (2017). “Cassandra and Suggestions for Thought by Florence Nightingale”, p.184, Routledge

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• Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity these, three and a place in society where no one of the three can be exercised?

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  1852 'Cassandra' pt.1, part of an unpublished work Suggestions for Thought to Searchers after Religious Truth (revised and privately printed1859). Published as an appendix in Ray Strachey The Cause: A Short History of theWomen'sMovement in Great Britain (1928).

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• Jesus Christ raised women above the condition of mere slaves, mere ministers to the passions of the man, raised them by His sympathy, to be Ministers of God.

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  Florence Nightingale, Lynn McDonald (2002). “Florence Nightingale's spiritual journey: biblical annotations, sermons and journal notes”, Wilfrid Laurier Univ Pr

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• 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 I have.

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  Florence Nightingale (2005). “The Collected Works of Florence Nightingale”

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