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Jennifer Worth RN RM (25 September 1935 – 31 May 2011) was a British nurse and musician. She wrote a best-selling trilogy of memoirs about her work as a midwife practising in the poverty-stricken East End of London in the 1950s: Call the Midwife, Shadows of the Workhouse and Farewell to The East End. A television series, Call the Midwife, based on her books, began broadcasting on BBC One on 15 January 2012.

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I am forced to the conclusion that modern medicine does not know it all.

Doe, Know, Know It All, Medicine, Modern

Quite honestly, a baby covered in blood, still slightly blue, eyes screwed up, in the first few minutes after birth, is not an object of beauty.

Baby, Blue, Eye, Object

I remember the days of my youth when everything was new and bright; when the mind was always questing, searching, absorbing; when the pain of love was so acute it could suffocate, and the days when joy was delirious.

Acute, Joy, Love, Mind, Pain, Time

Love doesn't adhere to time and boundaries does it? It just is.

Adhere, Boundaries, Doe, Love, Time

Sister Monica Joan murmured, as though to herself, but loud enough to be heard by all, "How perfectly charming. Old enough to know it all, and young enough to blush. Perfectly charming.

Blush, Charming, Enough, Know It All, Though

Their devotion showed me there were no versions of love there was only. . . Love. That it had no equal and that it was worth searching for, even if that search took a lifetime.

Devotion, Equal, Lifetime, Versions, Worth

Health is the greatest of God's gifts, but we take it for granted; yet it hangs on a thread as fine as a spider's web and the tiniest thing can make it snap, leaving the strongest of us helpless in an instant.

Granted, Greatest, Instant, Leaving, Spiders, Tiniest

Whoever heard of a midwife as a literary heroine? Yet midwifery is the very stuff of drama. Every child is conceived either in love or lust, is born in pain, followed by joy or sometimes remorse. A midwife is in the thick of it, she sees it all.

Child, Children, Drama, Followed, Midwife, Pain

Bah! Suffragettes. I've no time for suffragettes. They made the biggest mistake in history. They went for equality. They should have gone for power!

Biggest, Gone, Mistake, Should Have, Time

Faith is a private matter, usually held deep within a person, quiet, impossible to recognise or understand, if you have no faith yourself

Deep, Faith, Impossible, Matter, Reflection, Usually

The shell must be broken before the bird can fly.

Bird, Broken, Fly, Shell, Shells

That's the trouble, I can't forget him. He was everything to me, except mine.

Everything, Except, Forget, Mines, Trouble

Tread softly as you draw near to the bedside of a dying man, for the space around him is holy ground. Speak in hushed tones, with awe and reverence, as you would in a cathedral. Let not the mind engage in trivial thoughts. The awesome majesty of Death can only be met in silence.

Draw, Holy Ground, Hushed, Men, Space, Speak

I've loved someone since I was seventeen but I can't have him and I can't give him up. So until I can do that no one else will stand a chance.

Chance, Giving, Loved, Seventeen

Now and then in life, love catches you unawares, illuminating the dark corners of your mind, and filling them with radiance. Once in awhile you are faced with a beauty and a joy that takes your soul, all unprepared, by assault.

Dark, Filling, Joy, Love Life, Mind, Unprepared

Was it love of people?' I asked her. 'Of course no,' she snapped sharply. 'How can you love ignorant, brutish people whom you don't even know? Can anyone love filth and squalor? Or lice and rats? Who can love aching weariness, and carry on working, in spite of it? One cannot love these things. One can only love God, and through His grace come to love His people.

Carry, Grace, Ignorant, People, Rats

There is a greater gift than the trust of others. That is to trust in oneself. Some might call it confidence, others name it faith. But if it makes us brave, the label doesn’t matter. . . for it’s the thing that frees us, to embrace life itself.

Brave, Call, Labels, Names, Thing, Trust