She declined to believe in the vote as a universal panacea for the wrongs of women. “If women were to get the vote immediately Mr Mill would be disappointed with the result,” she wrote. The greater part of female misery was due to economics – not to the economic situation of women specifically but the economic situation of the whole nation.
Her arrogance was unconscious; her modesty was genuine. She insisted that the only difference between herself & other women was that she worked & they did not. She never would be brought to admit that there was anything else
Sir Edward Cook : Life of Florence Nightingale 1913
The manuscript notebook
