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I Can Expect No Sympathy Or Help From My Family.

I Am Not Yet Worthy; And I Will Live To Deserve To Be Called A Trained Nurse.

Nursing Is An Art: And If It Is To Be Made An Art, It Requires An Exclusive Devotion As Hard A Preparation As Any Painter's Or Sculptor's Work; For What Is The Having To Do With Dead Canvas Or Dead Marble, Compared With Having To Do With The Living Body, The Temple Of God's Spirit? It Is One Of The Fine Arts: I Had Almost Said, The Finest Of Fine Arts.

Why Have Women Passion, Intellect, Moral Activity These, Three And A Place In Society Where No One Of The Three Can Be Exercised?

Religion Was Important To Me. My Family And I Were Very Religious. I Acctualy Believe The Work I Did Was A Calling From God Himself.