822 New Cases Quotes & Sayings

women were considered instinctual nurses in this generation - the field had received exciting publicity during the Spanish-American War when an Army Nursing Corps had served overseas in the Philippines. Clara Weeks-Shaw, the author of a popular textbook on nursing, promoted the field as "a new activity for women - congenial, honorable and remunerative and with permanent value to them in the common experience of domestic life."3 In readable language, Weeks-Shaw presented nursing as an artful balance between self-reliance and submission. Overall its practices were an extension of maternity, requiring the classic female behaviors of cheerfulness (to the patients) and obedience (to the doctors). "Never leave a doctor alone with a gynecology patient except at his request," went one injunction. — Jean H. Baker

I have a husband who literally worships me. And cleans the house. And blow-dries my daughter's hair. — Kate Beckinsale

How do people do this? How do people work up the courage to be themselves even if it means facing rejection from people who love them? Why don't people get medals for this? — Sara Farizan

You're the girl that I'm falling madly in love with." I felt all the breath leave me. My mouth fell open, but no words escaped. He chuckled. "A speechless Emma. That's really cute. — Shelly Crane

Don't count on Congress. Laws come into being because people on the ground demand it. — Terri Sewell

It had been so silent in the wake of that commotion, a kind of potent silence that seemed to contain everything. The songs of the birds and the creak of the trees. The dying snow and the unseen gurgling water. The glimmering sun. The certain sky. The gun that didn't have a bullet in its chamber. And the mother. Always the mother. The one who would never come to me. — Cheryl Strayed

Peace, truthfully, is how you feel inside. — Nick Nolte

Are you living your dreams? — Lailah Gifty Akita

When we came off the tour for the last album, we started on this one. We've just been chipping away at it. We're not in that much of a hurry, because when we release a Blur album, that's a three year promotion and touring cycle. — Dave Rowntree

Someone once told me to "be a black belt at whatever you do." In other words, don't just be good or okay - be the best you can be. Not only do I apply that to my work as an actress, but I also went out and got my black belt. — Heather Hemmens

Good suits don't come from anywhere, though - I mainly wear Armani, Louis Vuitton and Burberry. — Luke Evans

When a parent denies a child its parent time, that parent is denying the child its child support
its psychological child support. — Warren Farrell

I grew up near Strasbourg in Alsace, where my family were coal merchants. — Jean-Georges Vongerichten