I, who so love a hermit life for a good part of the day, find myself living in public, and almost losing my identity.
Elizabeth BlackwellWhen life follows the course of our desires, it is easy to be swept along without thought.
Elizabeth BlackwellMethods and conclusions formed by half the race only, must necessarily require revision as the other half of humanity rises into conscious responsibility.
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 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