Jennifer Worth Quotes

A collection of quotes by Jennifer Worth.

Jennifer Worth was a British nurse and author, best known for her memoir series "Call the Midwife". Born on September 25, 1935, in Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, she trained as a nurse at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading. Afterward, she became a midwife and worked in the economically deprived region of London's East End during the 1950s. Later in life, Worth documented her experiences in a trilogy of memoirs, which inspired a successful television series adaptation. She passed away on May 31, 2011, leaving behind a lasting legacy in the field of nursing and literature.

Her religious poetry was surprisingly slender, and as I was eager to know more about her religion, I asked her about this aspect of her poetry. She replied with these lines from Keats' Ode to a Grecian Urn: 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty'--that is all Ye know on eath, and all ye need to know'. Do not ask me to immortalise the great Mystery of Life. I am just a humble worker. For beauty, look to the Pslams, to Isaiah, to St. John of the Cross. How could my poor pen scan such verse? For truth, look to the Gospels-- four short accounts of God made Man. There is nothing more to say.

Jennifer Worth