| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 42549 |
| QUOTATION: | Women have no sympathy ... and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Florence Nightingale (18201910), British nurse. letter, Dec. 13, 1861. Forever Yours, Florence Nightingale: Selected Letters, ch. 3 (1989).
Refuting the argument that women had been more sympathetic to her work than men. |
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