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.
Elizabeth BlackwellI do not wish to give (women) a first place, still less a second one- but the complete freedom to take their true place, whatever it may be.
Elizabeth BlackwellWhen life follows the course of our desires, it is easy to be swept along without thought.
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