Elizabeth Blackwell quote: "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."

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

It is not easy to be a pioneer - but oh, it is fascinating! I would not trade one moment, even the w...
ELIZABETH BLACKWELL

If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled.
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 p...
ELIZABETH BLACKWELL

A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman physician that forms a situation ...
ELIZABETH BLACKWELL

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

It is well worth the efforts of a life-time to have attained knowledge which justifies an attack on ...
ELIZABETH BLACKWELL

We've got four seniors this year who are giving us some good leadership. We lost three, but we gaine...
ELIZABETH BLACKWELL

We got off to a slow start, ... It took us three innings to get us going. This is a better Natchez t...
ELIZABETH BLACKWELL

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

I must have something to engross my thoughts, some object in life which will fill this vacuum and pr...
ELIZABETH BLACKWELL

I like this town, it's really great. They've put me in The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fam...
OTIS BLACKWELL

I always figured it was best if I write my songs, take them to my publisher and just lay back. There...
OTIS BLACKWELL

I used to be with a publishing house called Roosevelt Music. A gentleman there told me he had seen P...
OTIS BLACKWELL

When I started writing it was kind of hard getting people to do my stuff. They' say they couldn&...
OTIS BLACKWELL

There have been many times when I've been asked to appear and I'd say to myself, what am I g...
OTIS BLACKWELL

I'd hate to be a songwriter starting a career today.
OTIS BLACKWELL

When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then...
OTIS BLACKWELL

I got behind that pencil and nothing happened for many years, but since they put me in the Songwrite...
OTIS BLACKWELL

The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them...
LAWANA BLACKWELL

Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.
LAWANA BLACKWELL

For all their strength, men were sometimes like little children.
LAWANA BLACKWELL

Age is no guarantee of maturity.
LAWANA BLACKWELL

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.
LAWANA BLACKWELL

I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes f...
LAWANA BLACKWELL

If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as we...
LAWANA BLACKWELL

Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.
LAWANA BLACKWELL

Propriety was a rigid master, but one that must be obeyed if one wanted to keep a sterling reputatio...
LAWANA BLACKWELL

I would anticipate that the Electoral College will be held on the 13th of December, and our 20 elect...
KENNETH BLACKWELL

I used to go down every year for the remembrance of Elvis' birthday. Memphis State College invit...
OTIS BLACKWELL

The reason it takes us from November the second to December the sixth to certify is because we have ...
KENNETH BLACKWELL

Well at the time it seemed like a good idea this was a time when the interest rate was a lot more ap...
BRIAN BLACKWELL

It's definitely disappointing, but I know the University is headed in a good direction next year. Th...
BRIAN BLACKWELL

I imagine I have been portrayed as a complete scum bag but I think many people would be surprised.
BRIAN BLACKWELL

I think I am going to have other candidates' support for the most part, so I think that is going to ...
BRIAN BLACKWELL

I'm thrilled at the opportunity. I'm humbled. We had a great voter turnout this year and it means a ...
BRIAN BLACKWELL

The student body president is non-partisan. You have to take the view of the students. What the stud...
BRIAN BLACKWELL

We have a system that allows us to manage a free and fair election, free of fraud, free of intimidat...
KENNETH BLACKWELL

Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.
LAWANA BLACKWELL

It isn't kind to cultivate a friendship just so one will have an audience.
LAWANA BLACKWELL

Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.
LAWANA BLACKWELL

True repentance means making amends with the person when at all possible.
LAWANA BLACKWELL

He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionall...
LAWANA BLACKWELL

(Vintage) was undefeated and had scored about 45 points per game, and we held them to six, so we did...
DAVID BLACKWELL

What I've told everybody to do is take a deep breath and relax,
KENNETH BLACKWELL

You know, Jesse Jackson is just trying to stir up a hornet's nest.
KENNETH BLACKWELL

I'm one of those guys who tries to stay even keel, and I always say one guy doesn't make a class. Bu...
DAVID BLACKWELL

After the verdicts the coroner said he could have killed up to 1,500, nothing would surprise me.
MR. BLACKWELL

We're trying to show the students that they have an option in terms of spending those Kalamazoo Prom...
BARRY BLACKWELL

The Kalamazoo Promise has opened some doors that had been previously closed.
BARRY BLACKWELL

In an effort to better inform the public, the parish administration thinks a single organization sho...
BARRY BLACKWELL

It's really interesting having him, as his style of play is so different from what we have around he...
BILL BLACKWELL

I'm trying to drag them into finding the market for this project. I love world music.
CHRIS BLACKWELL

The DVDs are not cut to be stimulating visually. They're cut actually more to be soporific, in a sen...
CHRIS BLACKWELL

[Mr. Blackwell, who was the Ohio Co-Chairman of Mr. Bush's Presidential Campaign, has dismissed the ...
MR. BLACKWELL

Maybe at some point, I could see a time when sidewalks are in, but right now they're not.
CHRIS BLACKWELL

Love is the doorway to deception...
D. BLACKWELL

I lied, ... I didn't know if he was a cop.
MR. BLACKWELL

It's been difficult to get him fit and when he does get fit he tends to get a whack on it.
KEVIN BLACKWELL

African-Americans know I spent part of my childhood in public housing, I am a natural heir of the Re...
KEN BLACKWELL

Of all the things the intruders did, tearing up stuff, breaking things, they forgot to get the most ...
GREG BLACKWELL

The developer is going slowly, but it is still forging ahead.
CHRIS BLACKWELL

There is nothing to clarify about David Healy, I have had no bid for him and he's not going anywhere...
KEVIN BLACKWELL

Quite honestly, I haven't really noticed a lapse of any kind since the strike began.
JERRY BLACKWELL

The portion of the road still covered with snow is on a north aspect and takes longer to melt off th...
BILL BLACKWELL

The fax machine had been unplugged at the other end.
DAVID BLACKWELL

But it did take a while to get the fax in.
DAVID BLACKWELL

It was a family joke that Lydia's domestic tendencies were somehow misplaced when she was created.
LAWANA BLACKWELL

To succeed inside a political party, one must cultivate an ability to sit still and remain polite wh...
MORTON BLACKWELL

Job creation requires a business friendly environment with a tax structure that is not punitive and ...
KENNETH BLACKWELL

It would be like The Rock versus Seth Green. Now, tell me who he is
TAMMY BLACKWELL

Quite honestly, I haven't really noticed a lapse of any kind since the strike began. It seems as tho...
JERRY BLACKWELL

That's always the worst thing to lose one.
DAVID BLACKWELL

These guys are getting interviewed early, obviously we're on them earlier. I think they get tired of...
DAVID BLACKWELL

It was a great football game. (The Crushers) scored on their first drive, but we held them after tha...
DAVID BLACKWELL

We're awfully pleased to have another tool in the arsenal. Such a large number of people continue to...
DAVID BLACKWELL

Our expectations are very high. The hardest thing for kick return teams is when you're constant..
DAVID BLACKWELL

He's been on kickoff coverage before and done a good job of it, and I've been looking for a way to g...
DAVID BLACKWELL

I don’t like seeing you hit.”
“Well, to be quite honest, I don’t like being hit unless ...
TAMMY BLACKWELL

I used to go down every year for the remembrance of Elvis' birthday. Memphis State College invited m...
OTIS BLACKWELL

The intensity numbers, if properly measured, are really important. Preference numbers don't amount t...
MORTON BLACKWELL

Once they ask for a recount, we will provide them with a recount.
KENNETH BLACKWELL

The fact of the matter is that they are entitled to request a recount. We're entitled to give th...
KENNETH BLACKWELL

My love for you will outlast this beach, this ocean, this planet. When judgement comes and Heaven fi...
SCARLET BLACKWELL

In order to spur economic growth we need to put the brakes on out of control spending, lower Ohioans...
KENNETH BLACKWELL

Just think of what would have happened to poor old Naaman if he had decided to dunk himself only onc...
LAWANA BLACKWELL

You can be critical about our finishing, but it just wouldn't seem to drop,
KEVIN BLACKWELL

We have 45,000 square miles of geography in Ohio.
KENNETH BLACKWELL

Each bowl has its own unique appeal and own unique way of doing gifts. That is what makes bowl gifts...
GREG BLACKWELL

When we got into our offices, we were hoping for the best. But intruders got in.
GREG BLACKWELL

Just about every game this year, the first inning has killed us. The girls have butterflies. They're...
GARY BLACKWELL

What we need here is if schools are going to stay (with it), young kids need to start now. We run up...
GARY BLACKWELL

Our hitting was off we should have been hitting this girl the whole game. It took to the fourth o...
GARY BLACKWELL

We are 2-0 down but it's a seven-match series. There's still a long way to go.
IAN BLACKWELL

It's always a nice feeling to be among the wickets, especially on these slow turners.
IAN BLACKWELL

There's been a definite transformation in my lifestyle. It's probably something I should have done f...
IAN BLACKWELL

This being a non-conference game, you think maybe the girls will let down a little. So we worked har...
LAURA BLACKWELL

All of these games are going to be tough in this conference. I was worried about having that layoff ...
LAURA BLACKWELL

We didn't really execute as a team, and we had a lot of turnovers. But against Middle Georgia, we pl...
LAURA BLACKWELL

with sunshine there would be a lifting of the darkness.
MR. BLACKWELL

Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both.
ALICE STONE BLACKWELL

Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.
ANTOINETTE BROWN BLACKWELL

We fully believed, so soon as we saw that woman's suffrage was right, every one would soon see the s...
ANTOINETTE BROWN BLACKWELL

The sexes in each species of being... are always true equivalents - equals but not identical.
ANTOINETTE BROWN BLACKWELL

Slavery is malignantly aristocratic.
ANTOINETTE BROWN BLACKWELL

We fully believed, so soon as we saw that woman's suffrage was right, every one would soon see t...
ANTOINETTE BROWN BLACKWELL

The brain is not, and cannot be, the sole or complete organ of thought and feeling.
ALICE STONE BLACKWELL

The sexes in each species of being . . . are always true equivalents -- equals but not identical.
ANTOINETTE BROWN BLACKWELL

A woman finds the natural lay of the land almost unconsciously; and not feeling it incumbent on her ...
ANTOINETTE BROWN BLACKWELL

The law of grab is the primal law of infancy
ANTOINETTE BROWN BLACKWELL

A woman finds the natural lay of the land almost unconsciously; and not feeling it incumbent on her ...
ALICE STONE BLACKWELL

We need to stop trying to restrict access to lifesaving cancer screenings, birth control, and well-w...
ELIZABETH ESTY

The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.
ELIZABETH GASKELL

When I first started talking about running for office, a lot of people said to me, 'Don't le...
ELIZABETH WARREN

I'm a puzzle doer.
ELIZABETH EDWARDS

A good night in is a series of documentaries.
ELIZABETH DEBICKI

Repetition makes reputation and reputation makes customers.
ELIZABETH ARDEN

If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not ...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

Everything makes me nervous - except making films.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

I am a very committed wife. And I should be committed too - for being married so many times.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

Marriage is a great institution.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

I sweat real sweat and I shake real shakes.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men g...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

I really don't remember much about Cleopatra. There were a lot of other things going on.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

I've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim?
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

I have a woman's body and a child's emotions.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

So much to do, so little done, such things to be.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

It's not the having, it's the getting.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

I don't pretend to be an ordinary housewife.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

When people say, 'She's got everything', I've got one answer - I haven't had tom...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!
ELIZABETH GASKELL

Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.
ELIZABETH FRY

Comparison is a death knell to sibling harmony.
ELIZABETH FISHEL

I typically enjoy a beautiful beach destination, as I find the water and sand to be the most repleni...
ELIZABETH BERKLEY

The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of w...
ELIZABETH BOWEN

I think the main thing, don't you, is to keep the show on the road.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our heart...
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Education is not so important as people think.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it ha...
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to ...
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

We are minor in everything but our passions.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling; the wish to be seen as loved is part ...
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pock...
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

If I'm writing something and I'm not feeling mischievous, then I know it's not going to ...
ELIZABETH MERIWETHER

It touched me to be trusted with something terrible.
ELIZABETH KOSTOVA

The lower Farmington River and Salmon Brook are unparalleled natural treasures with some of the high...
ELIZABETH ESTY

Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.
ELIZABETH DREW

Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation.
ELIZABETH DREW

My God, I have so much bounty in my life.
ELIZABETH MARVEL

We have the opportunity and the responsibility to lead our country to a better and brighter future, ...
ELIZABETH ESTY

I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

It's not the having, it's the getting.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

I grew up in the Methodist church and taught Sunday school, and one of my favorite passages of scrip...
ELIZABETH WARREN

I don't want to live in Maine full time, but the physical beauty is very striking. It is the exa...
ELIZABETH STROUT

I feel like I don't understand time in novels, really. I bumble forward, is all.
ELIZABETH MCCRACKEN

Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus.
ELIZABETH MOON

My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus.
ELIZABETH MOON

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You ca...
ELIZABETH EDWARDS

Some of these biggest financial institutions are out there trading in commodities. They're buyin...
ELIZABETH WARREN

The federal government secures the border; Californians decide how we want to treat our population. ...
ELIZABETH EMKEN

I don't connect to a certain girliness or talking about girly things - I feel unauthentic and un...
ELIZABETH REASER

The most dangerous cancer cells are actually the ones that are more like stem cells, which have this...
ELIZABETH BLACKBURN

We and other groups are seeing clear statistical links between telomere shortness and risk for a var...
ELIZABETH BLACKBURN

The broken consumer credit market had to be repaired by making sure that consumers had the right inf...
ELIZABETH WARREN

Clearly, we are courting tragedy by turning a blind eye to marketing gimmicks plainly intended to tu...
ELIZABETH ESTY

I just want to keep writing characters who are interesting and complicated people and interesting ro...
ELIZABETH MERIWETHER

The continent did not appeal: France was filled with irritating people; Spain was corrupt and unstab...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

I noticed that no matter where I went in the country, there was this group of questions that got ask...
ELIZABETH BERKLEY

Girls' inner critics are starting to reveal themselves at a younger and younger age. And body im...
ELIZABETH BERKLEY

I'll not listen to reason. . . . Reason always means what someone else has got to say.
ELIZABETH GASKELL

The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.
ELIZABETH DREW

The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in...
ELIZABETH DREW

As a historian, I have learned that, in fact, not everyone who reaches back into history can survive...
ELIZABETH KOSTOVA

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!
ELIZABETH GASKELL

The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it...
ELIZABETH HARDWICK

I have children, and this notion - that there might be a single book that introduces children to lit...
ELIZABETH MCCRACKEN

Thus, you see, he arrived at the same end, via supposed duty, that he was previously pledged to via ...
ELIZABETH GASKELL

I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.
ELIZABETH GASKELL

Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngster...
ELIZABETH II

If we could simply live in the light of our bodies being temples of the Holy Spirit, our daily life ...
ELIZABETH GEORGE

Hardly anyone understands the principles behind magic,"scoffed Betony. "It's too difficult.
ELIZABETH KAY

perhaps,thought Felix,that's what magic is--physics with a different twist to it.
my world just...
ELIZABETH KAY

You're not standing on your head! Have a cookie. - Grimspite in Jinx on the Divide
ELIZABETH KAY

Breast cancer is being detected at an earlier, more treatable stage these days, largely because wome...
ELIZABETH HURLEY

Minds ripen at very different ages.
ELIZABETH MONTAGU

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.

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