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… — 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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