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Let whoever is in charge keep this simple question in her head (not, how can I always do this right thing myself, but) how can I provide for this right thing to be always done?

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Woman has nothing but her affections,--and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.
I use the word nursing for want of a better.
Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.
Remember my name-- you'll be screaming it later.
It is the unqualified result of all my experience with the sick that, second only to their need of fresh air, is their need of light; that, after a close room, what hurts them most is a dark room and that it is not only light but direct sunlight they want.
Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
May we hope that, when we are all dead and gone, leaders will arise who have been personally experienced in the hard, practical work, the difficulties, and the joys of organizing nursing reforms, and who will lead far beyond anything we have done!
How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses....we must be learning all of our lives.