Lobotomy Quote by Kate Clifford Larson

“Tens of thousands of patients would be forced to undergo lobotomies in the United States over the next two decades, and not until antipsychotic…

— Kate Clifford Larson

“Women were most frequently institutionalized by the order of husbands and fathers, whose will and opinion superseded the women’s. A doctor’s legal and medical…

— Kate Clifford Larson

How odd it is that sewing is thought to be 'women's work' when surgeons, sailors, and cowboys sew too. Yet how many female thoracic…

— Gretel Ehrlich

“Women, as we know, used to be judged incapable of medicine. That changed in 1876, when, after a tenacious fight led by Britain’s first…

— Rachel Clarke

In these days before antiseptics, doctors themselves also suffered high mortality rates. Florence Nightingale, a nurse during the Crimean War (1853-1856), watched one particularly…

— Sam Kean

Women are over 50 percent of the population.

— Natalie Dormer

Instead of wishing to see more doctors made by women joining what there are, I wish to see as few doctors, either male or…

— Florence Nightingale

We had early on women having the right to vote, then women in the workforce during WWII, just going back in history, and then…

— Nancy Pelosi

“Women struggled to enter the all-male professional schools. Dr. Harriot Hunt, a woman physician who began to practice in 1835, was twice refused admission…

— Howard Zinn

Doctors are very popular with women.

— Mikhail Varshavski

Women are half the population and they know how to take care of themselves, if they are only given access to health care.

— Cynthia Nixon

Today, women have access to the technological capacity to do anything to our bodies in the struggle for "beauty", but we have yet to…

— Naomi Wolf