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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-blackwell/the-gross-perversion-and-destruction-of-motherhood-by-the-abortionist/)

[Elizabeth Blackwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-blackwell/)

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## More by Elizabeth Blackwell

> [I, who so love a hermit life for a good part of the day, find myself living in public, and almost losing my identity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-blackwell/i-who-so-love-a-hermit-life-for-a-good-part-of-the-day-find-myself/)

[Elizabeth Blackwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-blackwell/)

> [A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman physician that forms a situation of singular and painful loneliness, leaving her without…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-blackwell/a-blank-wall-of-social-and-professional-antagonism-faces-the-woman/)

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> [I felt more than ever the necessity of my mission. But I went home out of spirits, I hardly know why. I must work…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-blackwell/i-felt-more-than-ever-the-necessity-of-my-mission-but-i-went-home-out/)

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> [ To her \[Florence Nightingale\] chiefly I owed the awakening to the fact that sanitation is the supreme goal of medicine its foundation and its… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-blackwell/to-her-florence-nightingale-chiefly-i-owed-the-awakening-to-the-fact/)

[Elizabeth Blackwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-blackwell/)

> [When life follows the course of our desires, it is easy to be swept along without thought.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-blackwell/when-life-follows-the-course-of-our-desires-it-is-easy-to-be-swept/)

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> [It is not easy to be a pioneer but oh, it is fascinating! I would not trade one moment, even the worst moment, for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-blackwell/it-is-not-easy-to-be-a-pioneer-but-oh-it-is-fascinating-i-would-not/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-blackwell/the-idea-of-winning-a-doctor-s-degree-gradually-assumed-the-aspect-of/)

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> [ \[On sex:\] ... the total deprivation of it produces irritability. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-blackwell/on-sex-the-total-deprivation-of-it-produces-irritability/)

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> [“...I awoke with a renewed understanding of why it is wise to retire to bed come nightfall. For evil thoughts take strength from the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-blackwell/i-awoke-with-a-renewed-understanding-of-why-it-is-wise-to-retire-to/)

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> [It is well worth the efforts of a lifetime to have attained knowledge which justifies an attack on the root of all evil ...…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-blackwell/it-is-well-worth-the-efforts-of-a-lifetime-to-have-attained-knowledge/)

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> [Prejudice is more violent the blinder it is.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-blackwell/prejudice-is-more-violent-the-blinder-it-is/)

[Elizabeth Blackwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-blackwell/)

> [A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-blackwell/a-blank-wall-of-social-and-professional-antagonism-faces-the-woman-2/)

[Elizabeth Blackwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-blackwell/)

> [The gross perversion and destruction of motherhood by the abortionist filled me with indignation, and awakened active antagonism. That the honorable term 'female physician'…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-blackwell/the-gross-perversion-and-destruction-of-motherhood-by-the-abortionist/)

[Elizabeth Blackwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-blackwell/)

> [Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-blackwell/our-school-education-ignores-in-a-thousand-ways-the-rules-of-healthy/)

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> [The excuse or toleration of cruelty upon any living creature by a woman is a deadly sin against the grandest force in nature -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-blackwell/the-excuse-or-toleration-of-cruelty-upon-any-living-creature-by-a/)

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