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Helen Octavia Dickens Quotes

1909–2001 United States

Helen Octavia Dickens (February 21, 1909 – December 2, 2001) was an American physician, medical and social activist, health equity advocate, researcher, health administrator, and health educator. She was the first African-American woman to be admitted to the American College of Surgeons in 1950, and specialized in Obstetrics and Gynecology.

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My professional career in medicine has been inspired mainly by the many badly needed services to youth in the Black community.

If every woman in Philadelphia had a Pap test once a year no woman need die of uterine cancer.

Follow your dream. You got two feet and a head? Keep going.

It was what I wanted to do and I didn’t see why I couldn’t do it.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Helen Octavia Dickens (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.