33 Quotes by Elizabeth Blackwell

When life follows the course of our desires, it is easy to be swept along without thought.

The excuse or toleration of cruelty upon any living creature by a woman is a deadly sin against the grandest force in nature - maternal love ... In not a single instance known to science has the cure of any human disease resulted necessarily from this fallacious method of research.

Prejudice is more violent the blinder it is ...

I 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.

None of us can know what we are capable of until we are tested.

It is not easy to be a pioneer - but oh, it is fascinating!

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

She played fast-pitch in the spring, and she wasn't going to play slow-pitch,

We got off to a slow start, ... It took us three innings to get us going. This is a better Natchez than we expected.