Quote#Wisdom
People often say to me, You don't know what a wife and mother feels.…
Quote byFlorence Nightingale · 1820–1910
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Life of Florence Nightingale (1913), Letter to Madame Mohl (13 December 1861).
English (original)
People often say to me, You don't know what a wife and mother feels. No, I say, I don't and I'm very glad I don't. And they don't know what I feel. … I am sick with indignation at what wives and mothers will do of the most egregious selfishness. And people call it all maternal or conjugal affection, and think it pretty to say so. No, no, let each person tell the truth from his own experience.
— Florence Nightingale
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