Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Quotes

• I asked [my father] what there was to make doctoring more disgusting than nursing, which women were always doing, and which ladies had done publicly in the Crimea. He could not tell me.

  Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

  Father, Women, Nursing

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• When I felt rather overcome with [my father's] opposition, I said as firmly as I could, that I must have this or something else, that I could not live without some real work.

  Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

  Father, Real, Work

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• I was only halfway to the record and it seemed like it took me a long time. I feel like that one will never be broken. That record will never be touched.

  Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

  Baseball, Long, Broken

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• I think he will probably come round in time, I mean to renew the subject pretty often.

  Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

  Time, Mean, Thinking

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• [My mother] speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc. By the same post I had several letters from anxious relatives, telling me that it was my duty to come home and thus ease my mother's anxiety.

  Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

  Life, Mother, Pain

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• At first he was very discouraging, to my astonishment then, but now I fancy he did it as a forlorn hope to check me; he said the whole idea was so disgusting that he could not entertain it for a moment.

  Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

  Hope, Ideas, Astonishment

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