Women dream till they have no longer the strength to dream; those dreams against which they so struggle, so honestly, vigorously, and conscientiously, and so in vain, yet which are their life, without which they could not have lived; those dreams go at last.
Florence Nightingale, Michael D. Calabria (1997). “Florence Nightingale in Egypt and Greece: Her Diary and "Visions"”, p.19, SUNY Press
