Elizabeth Blackwell

I, who so love a hermit life for a good part of the day, find myself living in public, and almost losing…

— Elizabeth Blackwell

A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman physician that forms a situation of singular and painful loneliness, leaving…

— Elizabeth Blackwell

I felt more than ever the necessity of my mission. But I went home out of spirits, I hardly know why. I…

— Elizabeth Blackwell

To her [Florence Nightingale] chiefly I owed the awakening to the fact that sanitation is the supreme goal of medicine its foundation…

— Elizabeth Blackwell

When life follows the course of our desires, it is easy to be swept along without thought.

— Elizabeth Blackwell

It is not easy to be a pioneer but oh, it is fascinating! I would not trade one moment, even the worst…

— Elizabeth Blackwell

The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense…

— Elizabeth Blackwell

[On sex:] ... the total deprivation of it produces irritability.

— Elizabeth Blackwell

“...I awoke with a renewed understanding of why it is wise to retire to bed come nightfall. For evil thoughts take strength…

— Elizabeth Blackwell

It is well worth the efforts of a lifetime to have attained knowledge which justifies an attack on the root of all…

— Elizabeth Blackwell

Prejudice is more violent the blinder it is.

— Elizabeth Blackwell

A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman.

— Elizabeth Blackwell

The gross perversion and destruction of motherhood by the abortionist filled me with indignation, and awakened active antagonism. That the honorable term…

— Elizabeth Blackwell

Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development.

— Elizabeth Blackwell

The excuse or toleration of cruelty upon any living creature by a woman is a deadly sin against the grandest force in…

— Elizabeth Blackwell

I do not wish to give (women) a first place, still less a second one- but the complete freedom to take their…

— Elizabeth Blackwell

It is a well-established fact that in healthy loving women, uninjured by the too frequent lesions which result from childbirth, increasing physical…

— Elizabeth Blackwell

If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled.

— Elizabeth Blackwell

None of us can know what we are capable of until we are tested.

— Elizabeth Blackwell

For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all…

— Elizabeth Blackwell

I must have something to engross my thoughts, some object in life which will fill this vacuum, and prevent this sad wearing…

— Elizabeth Blackwell

Methods and conclusions formed by half the race only, must necessarily require revision as the other half of humanity rises into conscious…

— Elizabeth Blackwell

Health has its science, as well as disease.

— Elizabeth Blackwell

It is not easy to be a pioneer - but oh, it is fascinating!

— Elizabeth Blackwell