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Eliza Ann Grier Quotes

1864–1902

Eliza Anna Grier (1864–1902) was an American physician and the first African American woman licensed to practice medicine in the U.S. state of Georgia. Grier was born in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina in 1864 to Emily and George Washington Grier.

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When I saw a colored woman doing all the work in cases of accouchement, and all the fee going to a white doctor who merely looked on, I asked myself, should I not get the fee myself?

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Eliza Ann Grier (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.