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Elizabeth Blackwell
(3 Feb 1821 - 31 May 1910)
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Science Quotes by Elizabeth Blackwell (7 quotes)
Elizabeth Blackwell, late in life. (source)
I felt more determined than ever to become a physician, and thus place a strong barrier between me and all ordinary marriage. 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
If the present arrangements of society will not admit of woman’s free development, then society must be remodelled, and adapted to the great wants of humanity.
— Elizabeth Blackwell
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
My whole life is devoted unreservedly to the service of my sex. The study and practice of medicine is in my thought but one means to a great end, for which my very soul yearns with intensest passionate emotion, of which I have dreamed day and night, from my earliest childhood, for which I would offer up my life with triumphant thanksgiving, if martyrdom could secure that glorious end:— the true ennoblement of woman, the full harmonious development of her unknown nature, and the consequent redemption of the whole human race.
— Elizabeth Blackwell
Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development; and the results … are gained very generally at the cost of physical and mental health.
— Elizabeth Blackwell
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
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.
— Elizabeth Blackwell
Quotes by others about Elizabeth Blackwell (1)
I shall esteem it a very great honor to have a degree from the institution that gave Elizabeth Blackwell her opportunity to study medicine.
See also:
- 3 Feb - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Blackwell's birth.
- Elizabeth Blackwell - biography as remembered by a fellow student in 1892.
- 20 Jan - Elizabeth Blackwell U.S. 18 cent stamp issued (1974) and other events, births and death for that date.
- Elizabeth Blackwell: America's First Woman M.D. - An annotated collection of documents and photos tracing her career by the National Library of Medicine.
- Sympathy and Science: Women Physicians in American Medicine, by Regina Morantz-Sanchez. - book suggestion.
- Elizabeth Blackwell: First Woman Physician, by Tristan Boyer Binns. - book suggestion.
- Booklist for Elizabeth Blackwell.