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“Be grateful for challenges because... Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then [each woman and] man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilisation and mental culture.”

Quote by Anandi Gopal Joshi

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Anandi Gopal Joshi
Anandi Gopal Joshi

Anandi Gopal Joshi was an Indian physician born on March 31, 1865, and died on February 26, 1887. She was the first female medical graduate in India and one of the first women to study medicine in the United States. more

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