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A blank wall of social and pr...

A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman physician that forms a situation of singular and painful loneliness, leaving her without support, respect or professional counsel.

Elizabeth Blackwell 30 quotes

It is not easy to be a pionee...

It is not easy to be a pioneer but oh, it is fascinating! I would not trade one moment, even the worst moment, for all the riches in the world.

Elizabeth Blackwell 30 quotes

For what is done or learned b...

For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women.

Elizabeth Blackwell 30 quotes

None of us can know what we a...

None of us can know what we are capable of until we are tested.

Elizabeth Blackwell 30 quotes

The excuse or toleration of c...

The excuse or toleration of cruelty upon any living creature by a woman is a deadly sin against the grandest force in nature - maternal love ... In not a single instance known to science has the cure of any human disease resulted necessarily from this fallacious method of research.

Elizabeth Blackwell 30 quotes

I felt more than ever the nec...

I felt more than ever the necessity of my mission. But I went home out of spirits, I hardly know why. I must work by myself all life long.

Elizabeth Blackwell 30 quotes

Methods and conclusions forme...

Methods and conclusions formed by half the race only, must necessarily require revision as the other half of humanity rises into conscious responsibility.

Elizabeth Blackwell 30 quotes

It is well worth the efforts ...

It is well worth the efforts of a lifetime to have attained knowledge which justifies an attack on the root of all evil ... which asserts that because forms of evil have always existed in society, therefore they must always exist.

Elizabeth Blackwell 30 quotes

I do not wish to give (women)...

I do not wish to give (women) a first place, still less a second one- but the complete freedom to take their true place, whatever it may be.

Elizabeth Blackwell 30 quotes

When life follows the course ...

When life follows the course of our desires, it is easy to be swept along without thought.

Elizabeth Blackwell 30 quotes

It is a well-established fact...

It is a well-established fact that in healthy loving women, uninjured by the too frequent lesions which result from childbirth, increasing physical satisfaction attaches to the ultimate physical expression of love. ... Love between the sexes is the highest and mightiest form of human sexual passion.

Elizabeth Blackwell 30 quotes

The gross perversion and dest...

The gross perversion and destruction of motherhood by the abortionist filled me with indignation, and awakened active antagonism. That the honorable term 'female physician' should be exclusively applied to those women who carried on this shocking trade seemed to me a horror. It was an utter degradation of what might and should become a noble position for women.

Elizabeth Blackwell 30 quotes

To her [Florence Nightingale]...

To her [Florence Nightingale] chiefly I owed the awakening to the fact that sanitation is the supreme goal of medicine its foundation and its crown.

Elizabeth Blackwell 30 quotes

I must have something to engr...

I must have something to engross my thoughts, some object in life which will fill this vacuum, and prevent this sad wearing away of the heart.

Elizabeth Blackwell 30 quotes

If society will not admit of ...

If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled.

Elizabeth Blackwell 30 quotes

It is not easy to be a pionee...

It is not easy to be a pioneer - but oh, it is fascinating! I would not trade one moment, even the worst moment, for all the riches in the world.

Elizabeth Blackwell 30 quotes

The idea of winning a doctor'...

The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me.

Elizabeth Blackwell 30 quotes

Prejudice is more violent the...

Prejudice is more violent the blinder it is.

Elizabeth Blackwell 30 quotes

None of us can know what we ar...

None of us can know what we are capable of until we are tested.

Elizabeth Blackwell 30 quotes

It is not easy to be a pioneer...

It is not easy to be a pioneer - but oh, it is fascinating!

Elizabeth Blackwell 30 quotes

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