I would earnestly ask my sisters to keep clear of both the jargons now current everywhere... Of the jargon, namely about the "rights" of women, which urges women to do all that men do... Merely because men do it, and without regard to whether this is the best that women can do; and of the jargon which urges women to do nothing that men do, merely because they are women... Woman should bring the best she has, whatever that is... Without attending to either of these cries.

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Nightingale, Florence. Notes on Nursing: What It Is and What It Is Not. London: Harrison and Sons, 1859.

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Nightingale, Florence. Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not. Dover Publications, 1969.