Elizabeth Kenny

It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

In the history of medicine, it is not always the great scientist or the learned doctor who goes forward to discover new fields, new avenues, new ideas.

O sleep, O gentle sleep,' I thought gratefully, 'Nature's soft nurse!'

I came to America to teach my method - not to enter a research experiment.

Panic plays no part in the training of a nurse.

I spent more time on dark ships in danger zones than any other woman in the world.

I do not want medical men to discuss whether or not my work is valuable, because I know what it will do. I want them to tell me how best this new knowledge of rapidly restoring paralysed people to health and strength can be applied where it is needed.