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.
Methods and conclusions formed by half the race only, must necessarily require revision as the other half of humanity rises into conscious responsibility.
A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman.
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.
If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled.
For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women.
We've got four seniors this year who are giving us some good leadership. We lost three, but we gained four. And we've got some younger players who are hitting the ball just as well as anybody.
None of us can know what we are capable of until we are tested.
It is not easy to be a pioneer - but oh, it is fascinating!
The excuse or toleration of cruelty upon any living creature by a woman is a deadly sin against the grandest force in nature - maternal love ... In not a single instance known to science has the cure of any human disease resulted necessarily from this fallacious method of research.
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.
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.