Class Quote by Elizabeth Blackwell

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

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

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

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

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 moment, for…

— 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 attraction for…

— 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 from the…

— Elizabeth Blackwell

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

Prejudice is more violent the blinder it is.

— Elizabeth Blackwell

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

— Elizabeth Blackwell