"To her [Florence Nightingale] chiefly I owed the……" — 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 crown."
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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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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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