elizabeth blackwel

“ None of us can know what we are capable of until we are tested. ”

“ I would not trade one moment, even the worst moment, for all the riches in the world. ”

“ Medicine must be regarded as one of those great departments of work in which the cooperation of men and women is needed to fulfill all its requirements. ”

“ I owed the awakening to the fact that sanitation is the supreme goal of medicine; its foundation and its crown. ”

“ 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. ”

“ Prejudice is more violent the blinder it is. ”

“ A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman. ”

“ Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development. ”

“ The excuse or toleration of cruelty upon any living creature by a woman is a deadly sin against the grandest force in naturematernal love. ”

“ My hope rises when I find that the inner heart of a human being may remain pure, notwithstanding some corruption of the outer coverings. ”