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. ”