When life follows the course of our desires, it is easy to be swept along without thought.
Elizabeth BlackwellThe idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me.
Elizabeth BlackwellI, who so love a hermit life for a good part of the day, find myself living in public, and almost losing my identity.
Elizabeth BlackwellFor what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women.
Elizabeth BlackwellIt 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.
Elizabeth BlackwellIt 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.
Elizabeth Blackwell