Elizabeth Garrett Anderson quotes
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“[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.”
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“I think he will probably come round in time, I mean to renew the subject pretty often.”
-- 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.”
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“I asked [my father] what there was to make doctoring more disgusting than nursing, which women were always doing, and which ladies had done publicly in the Crimea. He could not tell me.”
-- Elizabeth Garrett Anderson -
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“At first he was very discouraging, to my astonishment then, but now I fancy he did it as a forlorn hope to check me; he said the whole idea was so disgusting that he could not entertain it for a moment.”
-- Elizabeth Garrett Anderson -
“I was only halfway to the record and it seemed like it took me a long time. I feel like that one will never be broken. That record will never be touched.”
-- Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
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Source : Source: www.usatoday.com
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Source : Abraham Cowley, Thomas Sprat (1707). “The Works of Mr. Abraham Cowley ...: Consisting of Those which Were Formerly Printed; and Those which He Design'd for the Press, Publish'd Out of the Author's Original Copies. With The Cutter of Coleman-street”, p.55
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