"And as a wise man has said, no one has ever done anything great or useful by listening to the voices from without."
Florence Nightingale
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“Young women sometimes have trouble knowing what their convictions are and defending them, but it's kind of like a muscle that can be strengthened over time, and so it's something you need to do consciously.”Susan Cain advocate for introverts
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Florence was called the "Lady of the Lamp" for her nightly check-ups of the wounded in the hospital in Scutari, in a section of Istanbul now known as Üsküdar. In reality, she carried a paper concertina lamp, not an oil lamp depicted in the picture. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow gave her the enduring epithet in his poem Santa Filomena: A Lady with a lamp shall stand. In the great history of the land, A noble type of good, Heroic Womanhood
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