“I do not think there is a woman in whom the roots of passion shoot deeper than in me.”

Letter to Madame Mohl (13 December 1861)
The Life of Florence Nightingale (1913)
Context: Now just look at the degree in which women have sympathy — as far as my experience is concerned. And my experience of women is almost as large as Europe. And it is so intimate too. I have lived and slept in the same bed with English Countesses and Prussian Bauerinnen [farm laborers]. No Roman Catholic Supérieure [president of a French university system known for their diverse, eclectic teaching methods] has ever had charge of women of the different creeds that I have had. No woman has excited "passions" among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me. My doctrines have taken no hold among women. … No woman that I know has ever appris à apprendre [learned to learn]. And I attribute this to want of sympathy. You say somewhere that women have no attention. Yes. And I attribute this to want of sympathy. … It makes me mad, the Women's Rights talk about "the want of a field" for them — when I know that I would gladly give £500 a year [roughly $50,000 a year in 2008] for a Woman Secretary. And two English Lady Superintendents have told me the same thing. And we can't get one.

The Serpent, in Pt. I, Act I
1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)

The Go-Between (1953)

Ann-Margret shares her story about life and love https://lifestories.productions/iblog/ann-margret-shares-her-story-about-life-and-love/ (April 19, 2020)

Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman (1927)

Hugh Kingsmill Frank Harris (1932) p. 164.