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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 - maternal love ... In not a single instance known to science has the cure of any…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-blackwell/the-excuse-or-toleration-of-cruelty-upon-any-living-creature-by-a/)

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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/)

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> [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/)

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> [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/)

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> [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/)

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> [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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