Elizabeth Garrett Anderson quotes

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“[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

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“I think he will probably come round in time, I mean to renew the subject pretty often.”
-- Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

#Time Quotes #Mean Quotes #Thinking Quotes
“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

#Father Quotes #Real Quotes #Work Quotes
“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

#Father Quotes #Women Quotes #Nursing Quotes
“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

#Hope Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Astonishment Quotes
“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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