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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 (1820–1910), 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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