Woman has nothing but her affections,--and this makes her at once more…

Florence Nightingale
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Woman has nothing but her affections,--and this makes her at once more loving and less loved. ✨ Ray Strachey, Florence Nightingale, National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) (1928). The cause: a short history of the women's movement in Great Britain
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