Ocupation: Statistician
Life: May 12, 1820 - August 13, 1910
Birthday: May 12
Death: August 13
The family uses people, not for what they are, nor for what they are intended to be, but for what it wants them for- its own uses. It thinks of them not as what God has made them, but as the something which it has arranged that they shall be.
source: Florence Nightingale, Michael D. Calabria, Janet A. Macrae (1994). “Suggestions for Thought by Florence Nightingale: Selections and Commentaries”, p.99, University of Pennsylvania Press
topic: Family, Thinking, People