Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Pro...
A source page for quotes linked to Elizabeth Blackwell.
“Prejudice is more violent the blinder it is.”
“[On sex:] ... the total deprivation of it produces irritability.”
“A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman.”
“If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled.”
“Health has its science, as well as disease.”
“When life follows the course of our desires, it is easy to be swept along without thought.”
“None of us can know what we are capable of until we are tested.”
“Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development.”
“It is not easy to be a pioneer - but oh, it is fascinating!”