"It is not easy to be a pioneer……" — 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 all the riches in the world."
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Elizabeth Blackwell
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16 Quotes by Elizabeth Blackwell
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A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman physician that forms a situation of singular and painful…
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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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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do…
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Confine yourself to the present.
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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
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And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort…
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.
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Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance,…
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To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
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It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
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