Ocupation: Statistician
Life: May 12, 1820 - August 13, 1910
Birthday: May 12
Death: August 13
Instead of wishing to see more doctors made by women joining what there are, I wish to see as few doctors, either male or female, as possible. For, mark you, the women have made no improvement they have only tried to be "men" and they have only succeeded in being third-rate men.
source: Florence Nightingale, Martha Vicinus, Bea Nergaard (1990). “Ever Yours, Florence Nightingale: Selected Letters”, p.210, Harvard University Press