Elizabeth Blackwell Quotes

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

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

“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.”

“I used to go down every year for the remembrance of Elvis' birthday. Memphis State College invited me to sit in the auditorium and speak to the people for one of those Elvis days.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“Every advance in social progress removes us more and more from the guidance of instinct obliging us to depend upon reason for the assurance that our habits are really agreeable to the laws of health.”