"The true nurse, like the true patient, has no time for feelings."

"It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a Hospital that it should do the sick no harm."

"Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is that they are always in a muddle."

"I am not a woman. I am a machine. I am a thinking machine, but I have no feelings."

"I am a woman of facts, not of fancies."