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.
None of us can know what we are capable of until we are tested. - Elizabeth Blackwell
None of us can know what we are capable of until we are tested.
- Elizabeth Blackwell
When life follows the course of our desires, it is easy to be swept along without thought. - Elizabeth Blackwell
When life follows the course of our desires, it is easy to be swept along without thought.
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
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. - 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.
Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development. - Elizabeth Blackwell
Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development.
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
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.
If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled. - Elizabeth Blackwell
If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled.
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
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.
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 becaus… - Elizabeth Blackwell
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 becaus…
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