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, 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.
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.
When life follows the course of our desires, it is easy to be swept along without thought.
A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman physician that forms a situation of singular and painful loneliness, leaving her without support, respect or professional counsel.
Prejudice is more violent the blinder it is ...
The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me.
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.
None of us can know what we are capable of until we are tested.