5 Quotes & Sayings By Josephine Winslow Johnson

Josephine Winslow Johnson was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1876. During World War I, when her husband was a lieutenant colonel in the United States Army, she became a nurse in a Field Hospital in France. In addition to nursing, she wrote articles and short stories for magazines and newspapers. In addition to short stories, she wrote a novel called The Girl from Seneca Falls about a girl who goes to the Seneca Falls Convention Read more

She also wrote a play called "The Girl from Seneca Falls" which went on the road and played in many cities across the country. In 1929, she published her autobiography titled "A Woman of Fifty, with One Chapter Missing", which is filled with fascinating information about the history of medicine and medicine in general.

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Most people have the blindness of new-born things - a not-incurable blindness, the sight being there but its use not known. Josephine Winslow Johnson
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...the presence of each other and a lusty love of being, of living and knowing there was tomorrow and God knows how many more tomorrows and each a life and sufficient in itself... Josephine Winslow Johnson
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She knew that nothing was ever as overwhelming or final as he seemed to think - that if he would wait, instead of shouting, there'd be less to shout over in the end. Josephine Winslow Johnson
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But only in mad people fear goes on constant night and day, wearing one ditch in the mind that all thoughts must travel in. Josephine Winslow Johnson