"It is well worth the efforts of a……" — 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 ... which asserts that because forms of evil have always existed in society, therefore they must always exist."
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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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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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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes…
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of…
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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
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We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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