Elizabeth Blackwell Quotes

Elizabeth Blackwell Quotes

A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman physician that forms a situation of singular and painful loneliness, leaving her without support, respect or professional counsel.
Elizabeth Blackwell

Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development.
Elizabeth Blackwell

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.
Elizabeth Blackwell

If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled.
Elizabeth Blackwell

It is not easy to be a pioneer - but oh, it is fascinating! I would not trade one moment, even the worst moment, for all the riches in the world.
Elizabeth Blackwell

The 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 Blackwell



• Medicine is so broad a field, so closely interwoven with general interests, dealing as it does with all ages, sexes and classes, and yet of so personal a character in its individual appreciations, that it 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.



• For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women

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Christine de Pisan Quotes

• How many women are there ... who because of their husbands' harshness spend their weary lives in the bond of marriage in greater suffering than if they were slaves among the Saracens?
  -- The Book of the City of Ladies
  
  
• How was she created? I'm not sure if you realize this, but it was in God's image. How can anybody dare to speak ill of something which bears such a noble imprint?
  -- The Book of the City of Ladies
  
  
• If it were customary to send maidens to school and teach them the same subjects as are taught to boys, they would learn just as fully and would understand the subtleties of all arts and sciences.
  -- The Book of the City of Ladies
  
  
• ...if you seek in every way to minimize my firm beliefs by your anti-feminist attacks, please recall that a small dagger or knife point can pierce a great, bulging sack and that a small fly can attack a great lion and speedily put him to flight.” 
• Just as women's bodies are softer than men's, so their understanding is sharper.
  -- Attributed
  
  
• Not all men (and especially the wisest) share the opinion that it is bad for women to be educated. But it is very true that many foolish men have claimed this because it displeased them that women knew more than they did.
  -- The Book of the City of Ladies
• Rest assured, dear friend, that many noteworthy and great sciences and arts have been discovered through the understanding and subtlety of women....
  -- The Book of the City of Ladies
  
  
• There Adam slept, and God formed the body of woman from one of his ribs, signifying that she should stand at his side as a companion and never lie at his feet like a slave, and also that he should love her as his own flesh.
  -- The Book of the City of Ladies
  
  
• ...when someone finds himself quite unjustly attacked and hated on all sides, there is no need for such a person to feel dismayed by misfortune. See how Fortune, who has harmed many a one, is so inconstant, for God, Who opposes all wrong deeds, raises up those in whom hope dwells.
  -- Ditié de Jehanne d'Arc

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Paula Abdul Quotes

“I’m grateful this ordeal is over, and I’m so looking forward to getting back to the job I love,”

 “an admitted liar and opportunist who engages in unlawful activities.”

“Can you imagine Simon as a kid? His imaginary friends probably never wanted to play with him.”

“I welcome him like I welcome cold sores. He's from England, he's angry and he's got Mad Power Disease.”

“I'm grateful this ordeal is over, and I'm so looking forward to getting back to the job I love. Once again, I thank my fans from throughout the world for their undying love and support.

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Alvar Aalto Quotes

Our time is so specialised that we have people who know more and more or less and less.

Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.

We have almost a city has probably two or three hundred committees. Every committee is dealing with just one problem and has nothing to do with the other problems.

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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Quotes

I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.

I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court.

You can't win unless you learn how to lose.

I think race has been a burden for black Americans. Being Muslim has also been a challenge because so many people do not understand Islam.

Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals.

I think race has been a burden for black Americans. Being Muslim has also been a challenge because so many people do not understand Islam.

Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals.

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Romeo and Juliet Quotes

“My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite.”

Book :Romeo and Juliet




By   ― William Shakespeare, 

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