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Florence Nightingale@florence-nightingale Β· 1852
Women are never supposed to have any occupation of sufficient importance to interfere with the comfort of those around them. I was in my thirtieth year and had accomplished nothing of which any rational being could be proud. I refused to accept this as a natural condition.
β Nightingale, Cassandra (written 1852, published 1928) β on women's enforced idleness
19th Century