If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled. Elizabeth Blackwell More Quotes by Elizabeth Blackwell More Quotes From Elizabeth Blackwell None of us can know what we are capable of until we are tested. Elizabeth Blackwell testedcapableknows 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 womenlearningclass 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 womenwishgiving Prejudice is more violent the blinder it is. Elizabeth Blackwell violentprejudice 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 worst-momentspioneersacceptance 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 graduationinspirationalfunny It is not easy to be a pioneer - but oh, it is fascinating! Elizabeth Blackwell pioneersfascinatingeasy When life follows the course of our desires, it is easy to be swept along without thought. Elizabeth Blackwell courseseasydesire 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 wallsupportloneliness Health has its science, as well as disease. Elizabeth Blackwell wellsdiseasehealth 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 abortionfemalemotherhood 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 diseaseresearchanimal Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development. Elizabeth Blackwell healthyfeel-goodschool 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 sunglassesvacuumsheart 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 raceresponsibilityhumanity A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman. Elizabeth Blackwell wallsocialfaces 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 lonelinesshomelong [On sex:] ... the total deprivation of it produces irritability. Elizabeth Blackwell deprivationproducesex 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 hermitsidentitylosing 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 effortrootsevil
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