"None of us can know what we are……" — Elizabeth Blackwell
"None of us can know what we are capable of until we are tested."
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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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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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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 Capable Quotes
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Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.
— Margaret Atwood
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The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in…
— Charles Babbage
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My message to women is: Women: We can do it. We are capable of doing almost anything, but we must…
— Michelle Bachelet
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It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited…
— Douglas Adams
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Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
— Douglas Adams
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In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
— Joseph Addison
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If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has…
— Joseph Addison
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Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.
— Aphra Behn
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If a Pope clearly realizes that he is no longer physically, psychologically, and spiritually capable of handling the duties of…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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I learnt a lot in government, and I've learnt a lot since leaving government. The kind of journey of being…
— Tony Blair
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People are no longer primarily in opposition, nor can they be said to be interacting, rather they are participating in…
— David Bohm
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