Elizabeth Blackwell quotes

Elizabeth Blackwell was a British-born American physician and medical pioneer, known as the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States. Her determination challenged social norms and opened doors for women in medicine. She inspired future generations by advocating for medical education for women and public health reform. Here are 9 of her quotes:

None of us can know what we are capable of until we are tested. (Elizabeth Blackwell)
If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled. View quote
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. View quote
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. View quote
Elizabeth Blackwell
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. View quote
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. View quote
Elizabeth Blackwell
For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women. View quote
Elizabeth Blackwell
Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development. View quote
Elizabeth Blackwell
The gross perversion and destruction of motherhood by the abortionist filled me with indignation, and awakened active antagonism. That the honourable 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. View quote
Elizabeth Blackwell