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… — Elizabeth Blackwell Copy Share Image
I, who so love a hermit life for a good part of the day, find myself living in public, and almost losing my identity. — Elizabeth Blackwell Copy Share
A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman physician that forms a situation of singular and painful loneliness, leaving her without… — Elizabeth Blackwell Copy Share
I felt more than ever the necessity of my mission. But I went home out of spirits, I hardly know why. I must work… — Elizabeth Blackwell Copy Share
To her [Florence Nightingale] chiefly I owed the awakening to the fact that sanitation is the supreme goal of medicine its foundation and its… — Elizabeth Blackwell Copy Share
When life follows the course of our desires, it is easy to be swept along without thought. — Elizabeth Blackwell Copy Share
It is not easy to be a pioneer but oh, it is fascinating! I would not trade one moment, even the worst moment, for… — Elizabeth Blackwell Copy Share
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… — Elizabeth Blackwell Copy Share
“...I awoke with a renewed understanding of why it is wise to retire to bed come nightfall. For evil thoughts take strength from the… — Elizabeth Blackwell Copy Share
It is well worth the efforts of a lifetime to have attained knowledge which justifies an attack on the root of all evil ...… — Elizabeth Blackwell Copy Share
The gross perversion and destruction of motherhood by the abortionist filled me with indignation, and awakened active antagonism. That the honorable term 'female physician'… — Elizabeth Blackwell Copy Share
Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development. — Elizabeth Blackwell Copy Share
The excuse or toleration of cruelty upon any living creature by a woman is a deadly sin against the grandest force in nature -… — Elizabeth Blackwell Copy Share
