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

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

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

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

- 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.

- Elizabeth Blackwell

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

- 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…

- 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.

- Elizabeth Blackwell