Elizabeth Blackwell
Elizabeth Blackwell
Elizabeth Blackwellwas a British-born physician, notable as the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States, as well as the first woman on the UK Medical Register. She was the first woman to graduate from medical school, a pioneer in promoting the education of women in medicine in the United States, and a social and moral reformer in both the United States and in the United Kingdom. Her sister Emily was the third woman in the US...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDoctor
Date of Birth3 February 1821
CityBristol, England
CountryUnited States of America
I must have something to engross my thoughts, some object in life which will fill this vacuum, and prevent this sad wearing away of the heart.
It is a well-established fact that in healthy loving women, uninjured by the too frequent lesions which result from childbirth, increasing physical satisfaction attaches to the ultimate physical expression of love. ... Love between the sexes is the highest and mightiest form of human sexual passion.
I, who so love a hermit life for a good part of the day, find myself living in public, and almost losing my identity.
[On sex:] ... the total deprivation of it produces irritability.
Methods and conclusions formed by half the race only, must necessarily require revision as the other half of humanity rises into conscious responsibility.
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.
Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development.
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 because forms of evil have always existed in society, therefore they must always exist.
A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman.
Health has its science, as well as disease.
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.
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.
When life follows the course of our desires, it is easy to be swept along without thought.