"A blank wall of social and professional antagonism……" — 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 support, respect or professional counsel."
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Elizabeth Blackwell
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16 Quotes by Elizabeth Blackwell
Elizabeth Blackwell has 16 quotes on this site.
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It is well worth the efforts of a lifetime to have attained knowledge which justifies an attack on the root…
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To her [Florence Nightingale] chiefly I owed the awakening to the fact that sanitation is the supreme goal of medicine…
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The gross perversion and destruction of motherhood by the abortionist filled me with indignation, and awakened active antagonism. That the…
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Health has its science, as well as disease.
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The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight…
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When life follows the course of our desires, it is easy to be swept along without thought.
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None of us can know what we are capable of until we are tested.
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Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development.
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I do not wish to give (women) a first place, still less a second one- but the complete freedom to…
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It is not easy to be a pioneer - but oh, it is fascinating!
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I must have something to engross my thoughts, some object in life which will fill this vacuum, and prevent this…
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The excuse or toleration of cruelty upon any living creature by a woman is a deadly sin against the grandest…
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More Antagonism Quotes
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The world is not dialectical - it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to…
— Jean Baudrillard
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The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.
— Spiro T. Agnew
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My attitude toward progress has passed from antagonism to boredom. I have long ceased to argue with people who prefer…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Christianity has taken the part of all the weak, the low, the botched; it has made an ideal out of…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The gross perversion and destruction of motherhood by the abortionist filled me with indignation, and awakened active antagonism. That the…
— Elizabeth Blackwell
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I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to…
— Grace Paley
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War is the spectacular and bloody projection of our everyday living. We precipitate war out of our daily lives; and…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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That children shall be compelled to receive religious instruction which is in antagonism to the wishes of their parents, is…
— Charles Tupper
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In proportion as the exploitation of one individual by another is put an end to, the exploitation of one nation…
— Karl Marx
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In place of the old bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, we shall have an association in which…
— Karl Marx
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The meditative person can transform his sexuality without any antagonism. without any conflict. He is in deep friendship with all…
— Rajneesh
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