I do not wish to give (women) a first place, still less a second one- but the complete freedom to take their… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
When life follows the course of our desires, it is easy to be swept along without thought. — Elizabeth Blackwell Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
[On sex:] ... the total deprivation of it produces irritability. — Elizabeth Blackwell Copy Share Image
“...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 Image
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 Image
A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman. — Elizabeth Blackwell Copy Share Image
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