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HEALTH > humanitarian, nurse > Clara Barton
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Others are writing my biography, and let it rest as they elect to make it. I have lived my life, well and ill, always less well than I wanted it to be but it is, as it is, and as it has been; so small a thing, to have had so much about it!
Source: As quoted in Angel of the Battlefield, ch. 20, by Ishbel Ross (1956).
-- Clara Barton, (Dec 25 1821-1912), US humanitarian, nurse; The Angel of the Battlefield ministered to injured soldiers during the Civil War and founded the American Red Cross.