Notes on Nursing

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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.

Florence Nightingale

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Topic

Women Men and women Women's rights

Author

Florence Nightingale

Source

Notes on Nursing

Medium

Treatise

Language

English

Time

1860 1860s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

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

Current Citation

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