How very little can be done under the spirit of fear. – Florence Nightingale
Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe. – Florence Nightingale

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear. – Florence Nightingale
Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe. – Florence Nightingale
The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower. – Florence Nightingale
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. – Florence Nightingale
Brits and Americans have hundreds of different phrases for the same thing. Luckily, its usually a source of amusement rather than frustration. A flashlight by any other name is still a torch. My personal favourite is fairy lights, which we boringly refer to as Christmas lights. – Sloane Crosley