American woman Quote by David McCullough

I met an Englishwoman in Africa. She said she became a doctor because she saw one of my pictures. That’s all I want –…

— Don McCullin

“It took many months of scouring the mental hospitals of Europe, until finally they settled on a suitable candidate. The woman the world eventually…

— Glenn Meade

Florence Nightingale was an amazing figure. She created the American Red Cross. She saw the suffering from bad health conditions on the battlefield and…

— Sharon Lawrence

“A poor gentlewoman, doctor, is the worst thing in the world”

— Anonymous

The redefined physician is human, knows she's human, accepts it ... and she works in a culture of medicine that acknowledges that human beings…

— Anonymous

She was in a difficult position being the widow of a great American hero, a role that carried high expectations but she did a…

— Morris Dees

“She had abruptly flipped from the southern belle and was now putting on the extremely businesslike air of those perfectionist women who'd only worked…

— Rebecca Makkai

An interviewer asked me what book I thought best represented the modern American woman. All I could think of to answer was: Madame Bovary.

— Joseph McCarthy

“Women have always been healers. They were the unlicensed doctors and anatomists. They were abortionists, nurses and counselors. They were the pharmacists, cultivating healing…

— Barbara Ehrenreich Deirdre English

“She had added medicine because her brother-in-law practised it, but did not forget that in her young days no one ever considered the doctor…

— William Somerset Maugham

You know, in playing a role like this, you really want to get it right, because this is a person who was revered by…

— Mary Stuart Masterson

“old-fashioned, gentle Scottish physician, unmoved by the considerations of profit and personal gain that could so disfigure medicine. That doctors should consider themselves businessmen…

— Alexander McCall Smith