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 touc…

- 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 liv…

- Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

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 …

- Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

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 di…

- Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

I think he will probably come round in time, I mean to renew the subject pretty often.

- Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

[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 an…

- Elizabeth Garrett Anderson