Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Nightingale makes a sweeping claim about women lacking sympathy based on her extensive personal experience.
- In plain terms
- She claims from experience that women do not have sympathy.
- What can you take from it?
- Generalizations about groups based on personal experience can be biased.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What evidence supports or contradicts your views on groups?
- How does personal experience shape your beliefs?
Another view
The statement is a broad generalization that contradicts the vast evidence of women's empathy.
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