Jane Grey Swisshelm

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    Nature must change her plan
    Ere you can be a man.
    —Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815–1884)

    ... women can never do efficient and general service in hospitals until their dress is prescribed by laws inexorable as those of the Medes and Persians. Then, that dress should be entirely destitute of steel, starch, whale-bone, flounces, and ornaments of all descriptions; should rest on the shoulders, have a skirt from the waist to the ankle, and a waist which leaves room for breathing.
    Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815–1884)

    Few colors last; with their eternal thirst, time and light suck on them, and they bleach the black doctor’s hat until it’s grey like a dunce’s cap.
    Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)

    It is an old adage, “All is fair in love as in war,” but I thought not of general laws, and only felt a private grievance.
    —Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815–1884)