Quote#Politics & Power
That man and woman have an equality of duties and rights is accepted…
Quote byFlorence Nightingale · 1820–1910
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Cassandra (1860).
English (original)
That man and woman have an equality of duties and rights is accepted by woman even less than by man. Behind his destiny woman must annihilate herself, must be only his complement. A woman dedicates herself to the vocation of her husband; she fills up and performs the subordinate parts in it. But if she has any destiny, any vocation of her own, she must renounce it, in nine cases out of ten.
— Florence Nightingale
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