Elizabeth Garrett Anderson quotes

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson was an English physician and scientist, celebrated as the first woman to qualify as a doctor in Britain. Her achievements broke significant barriers for women in medicine and education. She inspired future generations by advocating for women's rights and co-founding hospitals and schools for female professionals. Here are 3 of her quotes:

[My mother] speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc. By the same post I had several letters from anxious relatives, telling me that it was my duty to come home and thus ease my mother's anxiety.

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

When I felt rather overcome with my father's opposition, I said as firmly as I could, that I must have this or something else, that I could not live without some real work.

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson