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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…
• It is well worth the efforts of a lifetime to have attained knowledge which justifies an attack on the root of all…
• To her [Florence Nightingale] chiefly I owed the awakening to the fact that sanitation is the supreme goal of medicine its foundation…
• The gross perversion and destruction of motherhood by the abortionist filled me with indignation, and awakened active antagonism. That the honorable term…
• Health has its science, as well as disease.
• The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense…
• When life follows the course of our desires, it is easy to be swept along without thought.
• None of us can know what we are capable of until we are tested.
• Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development.
• I do not wish to give (women) a first place, still less a second one- but the complete freedom to take their…
• It is not easy to be a pioneer - but oh, it is fascinating!
• I must have something to engross my thoughts, some object in life which will fill this vacuum, and prevent this sad wearing…

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