Florence Nightingale Passion Quotations

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.

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.

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.

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

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