Elizabeth Blackwell Quotes

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.

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

To her [Florence Nightingale] chiefly I owed the awakening to the fact that sanitation is the supreme goal of medicine its foundation and its crown.

Love, Hope, and Reverence are realities of a different order from the senses, but they are positive and constant facts, always active, always working out mighty changes in human life.

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.