"Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe." ― Florence Nightingale Topic(s): Sympathy More From Florence Nightingale "I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse." "The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality." More In Sympathy "IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom’s Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction."― Carl Clinton Van Doren "If you’re not ready to die for it, put the word ‘freedom’ out of your vocabulary."― Malcolm X "I have a theory because I was being beaten up a lot by people outside of school, it was almost like if I could make myself sick enough they’d take sympathy on me."― Daniel Johns