Elizabeth Blackwell Quotes

• None of us can know what we are capable of until we are tested.

  Elizabeth Blackwell

  Knows, Tested, Capable

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  If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled.

  Elizabeth Blackwell

  Women, Memorable, History

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• I do not wish to give (women) a first place, still less a second one- but the complete freedom to take their true place, whatever it may be.

  Elizabeth Blackwell

  Women, Giving, Wish

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  For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women.

  Elizabeth Blackwell

  Women, Learning, Class

  Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell (2016). “Medicine as a Profession for Women”, p.15, Library of Alexandria

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• 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.

  Elizabeth Blackwell

  Acceptance, Worst Moments, Pioneers

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• Prejudice is more violent the blinder it is.

  Elizabeth Blackwell

  Prejudice, Violent

  Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell (2016). “Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women: Autobiographical Sketches”, p.146, Library of Alexandria

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• When life follows the course of our desires, it is easy to be swept along without thought.

  Elizabeth Blackwell

  Desire, Easy, Courses

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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 possessed immense attraction for me.

  Elizabeth Blackwell

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

  Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell (2016). “Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women: Autobiographical Sketches”, p.24, Library of Alexandria

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• Health has its science, as well as disease.

  Elizabeth Blackwell

  Health, Disease, Wells

  Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell (2016). “Medicine as a Profession for Women”, p.6, Library of Alexandria

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• It is not easy to be a pioneer - but oh, it is fascinating!

  Elizabeth Blackwell

  Pioneers, Easy, Fascinating

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• A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman physician that forms a situation of singular and painful loneliness, leaving her without support, respect or professional counsel.

  Elizabeth Blackwell

  Wall, Loneliness, Support

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• Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development.

  Elizabeth Blackwell

  School, Feel Good, Healthy

  Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell (2016). “Medicine as a Profession for Women”, p.6, Library of Alexandria

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• Methods and conclusions formed by half the race only, must necessarily require revision as the other half of humanity rises into conscious responsibility.

  Elizabeth Blackwell

  Responsibility, Race, Humanity

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• The gross perversion and destruction of motherhood by the abortionist filled me with indignation, and awakened active antagonism. That the honorable term 'female physician' should be exclusively applied to those women who carried on this shocking trade seemed to me a horror. It was an utter degradation of what might and should become a noble position for women.

  Elizabeth Blackwell

  Motherhood, Abortion, Female

  Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell (2016). “Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women: Autobiographical Sketches”, p.25, Library of Alexandria

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• The excuse or toleration of cruelty upon any living creature by a woman is a deadly sin against the grandest force in nature - maternal love ... In not a single instance known to science has the cure of any human disease resulted necessarily from this fallacious method of research.

  Elizabeth Blackwell

  Animal, Research, Disease

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• I must have something to engross my thoughts, some object in life which will fill this vacuum, and prevent this sad wearing away of the heart.

  Elizabeth Blackwell

  Heart, Vacuums, Sunglasses

  Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell (2016). “Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women: Autobiographical Sketches”, p.23, Library of Alexandria

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• A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman.

  Elizabeth Blackwell

  Wall, Faces, Social

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• I felt more than ever the necessity of my mission. But I went home out of spirits, I hardly know why. I must work by myself all life long.

  Elizabeth Blackwell

  Loneliness, Home, Long

  Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell (2016). “Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women: Autobiographical Sketches”, p.61, Library of Alexandria

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• 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.

  Elizabeth Blackwell

  Science, Medicine, Goal

  Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell (2016). “Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women: Autobiographical Sketches”, p.151, Library of Alexandria

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• I, who so love a hermit life for a good part of the day, find myself living in public, and almost losing my identity.

  Elizabeth Blackwell

  Identity, Losing, Hermits

  Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell (2016). “Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women: Autobiographical Sketches”, p.15, Library of Alexandria

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• 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.

  Elizabeth Blackwell

  Roots, Evil, Effort

  Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell (2016). “Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women: Autobiographical Sketches”, p.215, Library of Alexandria

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• [On sex:] ... the total deprivation of it produces irritability.

  Elizabeth Blackwell

  Sex, Deprivation, Produce

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• It is a well-established fact that in healthy loving women, uninjured by the too frequent lesions which result from childbirth, increasing physical satisfaction attaches to the ultimate physical expression of love. ... Love between the sexes is the highest and mightiest form of human sexual passion.

  Elizabeth Blackwell

  Sex, Passion, Love Is

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