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Quotes from Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women — Elizabeth Blackwell

1821–1910 England

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I am prepared for this. Prejudice is more violent the blinder it is...a work of the ages cannot be hindered by individual feeling. A hundred years hence women will not be what they are now.

Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women (1895)

If an idea, I reasoned, were really a valuable one, there must be some way of realising it. The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed great attraction for me.

Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women (1895)

The gross perversion and destruction of motherhood by the abortionist filled me with indignation, and awakened active antagonism. That the honourable term 'female physician' should be exclusively applied to those women who carried on this shocking trade seemed to me a horror. It was an utter degradation of what might and should become a noble position for women.

Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women (1895)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Elizabeth Blackwell (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.