Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Professions : Physician Born : June 9, 1836 Died : December 17, 1917 Browse All Authors Top 6 quotes by Elizabeth Garrett Anderson 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 real work father 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 nursing women father [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 pain mother life I think he will probably come round in time, I mean to renew the subject pretty often. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson time mean thinking 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 astonishment hope ideas 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 broken baseball long Similar Authors Abram Hoffer physician Buwei Yang Chao physician Broda Otto Barnes physician Brian Day physician Anna Komnene physician Axel Munthe physician All Authors
