Florence Nightingale Quotes

“The drinking water was murky with contamination, causing many nurses to drink the safer choices of wine or beer; some eventually became alcoholics and could no longer keep nursing.”
― Hourly History, Florence Nightingale: A Life from Beginning to End

“Florence sunk into depression. She wrote of her wish to die if she could not follow her call to do something of value with her life. A month or two later, she suggested to her father that she might study nursing with Roman Catholic nuns at a hospital in Ireland, a more reputable situation.”
― Hourly History, Florence Nightingale: A Life from Beginning to End

“Nurses were not professionals but lower-class women with little or no training, who needed an outside means of support. They might have been widowed or not have succeeded as servants, and they had a bad reputation for drinking or sometimes being employed as sex workers.”
― Hourly History, Florence Nightingale: A Life from Beginning to End