List of Elizabeth Blackwell Quotes

It Is A Well-established Fact That In Healthy Loving Women, Uninjured By The Too Frequent Lesions Which Result From Childbirth, Increasing Physical Satisfaction Attaches To The Ultimate Physical Expression Of Love. ... Love Between The Sexes Is The Highest And Mightiest Form Of Human Sexual Passion.

It Is Well Worth The Efforts Of A Lifetime To Have Attained Knowledge Which Justifies An Attack On The Root Of All Evil ... Which Asserts That Because Forms Of Evil Have Always Existed In Society, Therefore They Must Always Exist.

[on Sex:] ... The Total Deprivation Of It Produces Irritability.

I, Who So Love A Hermit Life For A Good Part Of The Day, Find Myself Living In Public, And Almost Losing My Identity.

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.

A Blank Wall Of Social And Professional Antagonism Faces The Woman.

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.

I Must Have Something To Engross My Thoughts, Some Object In Life Which Will Fill This Vacuum, And Prevent This Sad Wearing Away Of The Heart.

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.

The Gross Perversion And Destruction Of Motherhood By The Abortionist Filled Me With Indignation, And Awakened Active Antagonism. That The Honorable 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.

Methods And Conclusions Formed By Half The Race Only, Must Necessarily Require Revision As The Other Half Of Humanity Rises Into Conscious Responsibility.

Our School Education Ignores, In A Thousand Ways, The Rules Of Healthy Development.