Quotes by Elizabeth Blackwell

“Love, Hope, and Reverence are realities of a different order from the senses, but they are positive and constant facts, always active, always working out mighty changes in human life.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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